Community Oriented Primary Care
This Community-Oriented Primary Care introductory course (COPC) provides a model for integrating primary care services into communities and targets health-related concerns with active community participation.
COPC is the marriage of public health and primary care. The concepts you’ll learn dovetail nicely with the practice of medicine no matter which specialty you choose, as well as the principles of social accountability.
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There are four (4) modules to complete, which include:
- Module 1: Introduction to COPC
- Module 2: COPC and Health Systems
- Module 3: Preparing for a Community-based Intervention
- Module 4: Implementing the COPC approach and promoting community participation
Time estimation and credit hours of course:
The completion time for this course is estimated at 51 hours at an average rate of 144 words/minute, comprising 7 hours of learning resources, 14 hours of time to study content and assimilation, and 31 hours of participating in learning activities and quizzes, to assist the learners in the synthesis of learning materials. This course is equivalent to 1 credit hour.
Requirements for completion of course:
The course requires completion of all activities (reflection, discussion forum, case scenarios etc.) to complete the course. At the end of each module, there is a practice quiz with multiple-choice questions. After you’ve completed each module, quiz, and learning activity, at the end of the course, you will have access to a final exam with multiple-choice questions, and a chance to evaluate this course. Participants have up to three opportunities to take the final exam and achieve the required score of >=70%.
Once you have passed that last test, you will be able to download a certificate of completion from NextGenU.org and our course’s co-sponsoring organizations (listed above). We keep all of your personal information confidential, never sell any of your information, and only use anonymized data for research purposes, and we are also happy to report your testing information and share your work with anyone (your school, employer, etc.) at your request. We hope that you will find this a rewarding learning experience, and we count on your feedback to help us improve this training for future students.
At NextGenU.org, we provide the estimated reading times for all of our Learning Resources (LRs) i.e., webpages, articles, and slides. The estimated reading time is calculated using a reading speed of 144 words per minute (no. of words recommended to read in the LR ÷ 144 words per minute). Additionally, we calculate the study/assimilation which for primary sources, are multiplied by 2 and for secondary sources, are multiplied by 1 (estimated read time x 2 = study/assimilation time).