{"id":373,"date":"2011-09-06T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2011\/09\/06\/what-we-never-talked-about-in-medical-school\/"},"modified":"2016-01-03T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T16:27:27","slug":"what-we-never-talked-about-in-medical-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2011\/09\/06\/what-we-never-talked-about-in-medical-school\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Never Talked About In Medical School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"India Feeding Children\" href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/health_leader_strategy_15_530.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/health_leader_strategy_15_530.jpg\" alt=\"India Feeding Children\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How would you work to improve the health of an entire community, rather than just one person at a time? We NEVER talked about this when I was in medical school, not even during our tiny public health course. I could wax poetic concerning all the reasons for focusing on health needs of individuals rather than on groups. I could cite, for example, financial reimbursement systems that recognizes only health services for individuals, or how our society tends to place a higher value on personal well being as opposed to corporate success. But ultimately, I find that our attraction to individual health is a matter of modeling. Our professors instruct us with this disposition, so we in turn practice in this way, and further instruct our own prot\u00e9g\u00e9 to follow in our ways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I later experienced first hand in urban China and rural Angola how such a approach is both inefficient and ineffective in addressing widespread health issues. Passionate about sharing my discoveries, INMED just published the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/courses-info\/self-paced-courses\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Health Leadership Self-Paced Course<\/a>. This course requires only about three hours to complete, and embodies what I learned the hard way through years of experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; How would you work to improve the health of an entire community, rather than just one person at a time? We NEVER talked about this when I was in medical school, not even during our tiny public health course. 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