PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY ACADEMIC AWARD

该奖项的主要目的是增加医生学员的承诺 和对预防性心脏病学的敏感性， 对少数民族，特别是黑人，有效， 在这些方案中解决与下列具体需要有关的问题： 亚拉巴马的黑人人口。 与此同时， 心脏病学概念纳入本科和研究生医学教育 课程将得到推广。 大学和医疗中心有着丰富的预防传统， 医学研究和服务，以及实现 上述目标将是整合和集中各种活动， 资源，以建立一个预防心脏病学的身份， 机构及其培训计划。 具体目标是 完成的工作是：1）审查现有的预防心脏病学 课程材料，并根据需要进行修改，以反映文化 预防心脏病的敏感方法; 2）有效地应用 适当和有效的原则，医学院课程的变化， 促进更加重视与下列方面有关的基本概念： 预防心血管疾病; 3）增加训练量 致力于预防心脏病学的内部人员培训计划;以及4） 应用一级预防和二级预防的原则和技术 通过预防性心脏病学以协调的方式进行干预 临床; 5）发展专业技能（研究，教学和病人 （c）使候选人能够作为一个高效的 学术临床医生 该奖项将提供候选人以前的逻辑延伸 对黑人就医行为的研究。 初步数据 从这项研究表明，医生可能不知道，或持有 误解，预防心脏病学的机会， 黑人人口。 拟议的计划将开发材料， 在其他机构使用，并将直接解决这个问题， 该机构的学员。

The major aim of this award is to increase physician trainees' commitment and sensitivity to preventive cardiology with a focus on approaches likely to be effective in minority, particularly black, populations, and to address within these programs issues related to the specific needs of Alabama's black population. At the same time the integration of preventive cardiology concepts into the undergraduate and graduate medical education curricula will be promoted. The University and Medical Center have a rich tradition of preventive medicine research and services, and the methodology for accomplishing the above aims will be to integrate and focus the various activities and resources in order to forge a preventive cardiology identity within the institution and its training programs. The specific objectives to be accomplished are 1) to review currently available preventive cardiology curriculum materials and modify them as needed to reflect a culturally sensitive approach to preventive cardiology; 2) to effectively apply appropriate and valid principles of medical school curriculum change to promote increased emphasis on the essential concepts related to the prevention of cardiovascular disease; 3) to increase the amount of training devoted to preventive cardiology in housestaff training programs; and 4) to apply principles and technology of primary and secondary preventive intervention in a coordinated fashion through a preventive cardiology clinic; 5) to develop professional skills (research, teaching and patient care) that will enable the Candidate to function as a highly effective academic clinician. The award will provide a logical extension of the Candidate's previous research on the health care seeking behavior of blacks. Preliminary data from this research indicate that physicians may be unaware of, or hold misconceptions about, the opportunities for preventive cardiology in the black population. The proposed program will develop materials that can be used at other institutions and will directly address this problem among the trainees at this institution.