How a Community-Based Organization and an Academic Health Center Are Creating an Effective Partnership for Training and Service

Community–academic partnerships in the training of doctors offer unique learning opportunities of great importance. Such partnerships can induce a paradigm shift such that physicians view community as a teaching resource and partner rather than as a passive recipient of services or solely as a placement site. The authors describe a model of a community–academic partnership in New York City, begun in 1995, in which, for training and service,...