Curricula

• Community for Children’s curriculum is intended to take the medical student or resident out of the clinic setting back into the community to discover the source of health, disease and healing within any particular community. It is also meant to foster a culture of compassion among physicians. Most of the four week elective is spent in the classroom setting, making house calls or in discussions with community advocates. Although the participants have the opportunity to work in clinics and hospitals during the four weeks, the focus of the curriculum is not clinical, but rather professional development within community.
• The Children’s Rights Curriculum , published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, can be used to raise awareness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by increasing the understanding of its direct application to health and health care policy and practice, raise awareness of the relationship between public policy and the health rights of children and encourage a commitment to the development of an advocacy role related to children’s rights.