PHA-Exchange> - A Vision for Medical Schools

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 Social Accountability - A Vision for Canadian Medical Schools


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> Social Accountability
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> A Vision for Canadian Medical Schools
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> Health Canada
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> Available online as PDF file [13p.] at:
> http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/healthcare/pdf/social_accountability.pdf
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> ".........By identifying and responding to the needs of the community,
> whether defined by risk or by geography, and by ensuring that individual
> graduating physicians understand their role in society, Canadian medical
> schools, along with their partners, have a major role to play in
influencing
> the changes in the health care system that are necessary to ensure an
> effective, efficient, accessible, equitable and sustainable system in the
> 21st century.
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> WHO has defined the Social Accountability of Medical Schools as "the
> obligation to direct their education, research and service activities
> towards addressing the priority health concerns of the community, region,
> and/or nation they have a mandate to serve. The priority health concerns
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> to be identified jointly by governments, health care organizations, health
> professionals and the public." Social responsiveness is a complementary
> capability by which a medical school responds to societal needs and acts
> proactively to meet those needs....."
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