1. Using evidence to improve clinical care | Identify and appraise national and international guidelines to address the problem | Assessing literature reviews, evidence-based medicine, and guideline appraisals | Improve management of diabetes in adults |
Adapt these guidelines to improve care for a common clinical problem in designated territory | Developing implementation and evaluation strategies | Improve management of acute respiratory illness in children |
2. Acting as a resource to a defined population | Identify a health need in the community and develop a clinical and community prevention project to address it | Using a logic model as a project planning tool | Improve cervical cancer screening |
Identifying health needs and community resources | Prevent childhood obesity |
Develop an evidence-based preventive measure and promote intervention for the identified need | Designing a program and developing an evaluation strategy, including short-, medium-, and long-term objectives | Prevent teen pregnancy |
Incorporating principles of health promotion and community advocacy |
Developing a set of indicators to evaluate the interventions |
3. Relational aspects of care between patients, professionals, and communities | Study the relationships between patient, family, and community, focusing on individuals’ strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and opportunities | Using tools, such as genogram, ecomap, FIRO theory, family life cycle | Detect and manage alcoholism, depression, and family violence |
Understanding the roles of team members in managing a case |
4 and 5. Preparation of the multipliers | Prepare material and class plan (eg, needs assessment, objectives, strategies, and evaluations) | Determining the needs assessment of students | Teach the first 3 modules by presenting the experience with each module and providing an evaluation of each module |
Developing objective knowledge, skills, and attitudes |
Using appropriate adult teaching strategies (short lecture, film, debate, role playing, etc) |
Designing course evalutations |