Karen - 
 
Its great to hear from another physician trying to address health literacy from the medical school level.  I have done a bit of work helping residency programs develop health literacy curriculum.  I'd love to talk off line about your project.
 
Lisa 
 
Lisa Jones, MD FACOG
lisamjones44 at hotmail.com
 

 > > Message: 2> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:29:05 -0500> From: klubimir at aol.com> Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1529] Medical School curriculum> To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov> Message-ID: <8CA03F9E6BAD05E-B4C-73D at WEBMAIL-DG12>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"> > Hello, > > I recieve the Health and literacy email discussion and find the breadth > fascinating and heartening. > I am a physician,completing fellowship training in specialty of Geriatric > Medicine, at the John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii. My > colleagues and I are in the process of developing a Health Literacy Curriculum > for medical students and other physicians in training. A literature review has > had low yield regarding other medical or professional schools intergrating the > topic of Health Literacy into their curriculum.> ?> Does anyone have any knowledge of medical or other professional schools incorporating health literacy into their training curriculum? > > Thank you in advance for your input.> > Karen Lubimir, M.D., D.M.D.> Fellow,? Department of Geriatric Medicine> John A. Burns School of Medicine> University of Hawaii> Honolulu, HI > > 
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