PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY ACADEMIC AWARD

该应用程序请求支持激活、开发和 集中一个长期方案， 心血管疾病的医疗/牙科学生和居民。 这 计划将二次提高临床的知识和技能， 基础科学系、护士、牙科系和辅助人员 在这个纪律。 建议如下： 学生和教职员工心血管风险自我评估计划 因素（概况）;采用25-30年的计算机化数据库， 心血管疾病危险因素的纵向流行病学研究 黑人医学生的疾病（梅哈里队列研究）， 计算疾病的风险和流行病学。 风险比较 目前医学生与那些在上述研究;建立一个 心脏病预防中心协调和监测办公室 目的;组织一个由高级官员组成的咨询委员会， 将提供监督的学科的代表， 在基础科学领域实施变革和创新 课程提供预防心脏病学的指导。 这种变化 也将在临床见习计划和门诊诊所 在家庭医学、儿科、外科和牙科部门 在一个统一的教学计划;建立预防心脏病学 配备视听辅助设备的学习资源中心，计算机辅助 心血管生理学和解剖学、病理学教学 能够提供心血管疾病的自我评估 风险;为有倾向的学生提供夏季选修课 从事预防心脏病学工作;定期出版时事通讯 在校园范围内分发，主题或预防方面 心脏病学和进一步发展的长期支持， 机构和地方组织。

This application requests support for the activation, development and centralization of a long range program for teaching the prevention of cardiovascular diseases to medical/dental students and residents. This program will secondarily improve the knowledge and skills of the clinical and basic science faculties, nurses, dental faculty and supportive staff in this discipline. The following is proposed: A program for students and staff self evaluation of cardiovascular risk factors (profile); Employing the computerized data base of a 25-30 year old longitudinal epidemiologic study of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in black medical students (The Meharry Cohort Study) to calculate risks and epidemiology of disease. Comparison of risk in present medical students with those in the above study; Establish a central preventive cardiology office for coordinating and monitoring purposes; organize an advisory committee composed of senior representatives from the disciplines that will provide oversight and support; Implement changes and institute innovations in the basic science curriculum to provide instruction in preventive cardiology. Such changes will also be made in clinical clerkship programs and outpatient clinics in the departments of Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery and Dentistry in a unified instructional program; Establish a preventive cardiology learning resource center equipped with audio visual aids, computer aided instruction in cardiovascular physiology and anatomy, pathologic processes and capable of providing self evaluation of cardiovascular risk; Provide summer electives for students having a tendency toward a career in preventive cardiology; Develop a regularly published newsletter for campus-wide distribution, with topics or aspects of preventive cardiology and, the further development of long range support by the institution and local organization.