Medical Curriculum innovation, implementation, and evaluation: in particular, community oriented/based medical education, problem based learning methodology, and ambulatory teaching. One of our medical schools is a leader in the organ systems learning model, and both are leaders in the primary care movement.  The MSU College of Nursing is also a leader in the primary care movement.

Both of the MSU Colleges of Medicine and the College of Nursing work together with communities throughout the state of Michigan to pioneer new approaches to health education.  These approaches were enhanced through a Kellogg Foundation funded Community/University healthcare partnership program (July 1991-August, 1997).  The IIH has been helping by adding international linkages and components to the program.

Distance learning programs were pioneered by the MSU College of Nursing and the College of Education.  Similar capabilities are being developed in the Colleges of Human Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine.

Health Care Planning and Delivery (systems and policies), Health Care Management, Health Care Financing, and Quality Assurance for Health Services.

Home Economics (family science), Nutrition, and Food Science,

Mass media campaigns and interventions for behavioral modification of people's health attitudes. Distance learning and telemedicine electronic modalities.

Computer applications in Medicine (both in educational programs and in patient care, record keeping, management, accounting, and administration).

Epidemiology study design and analysis. Measurement of Reliability and Validity, and casual Inference. Cardiovascular, nutritional, pediatric, and mental health epidemiology.

Research and training in the medical sciences and disciplines: preclinical (e.g., Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Physiology) paraclinical (e.g., Radiology, Pathology, Microbiology, Medical Technology) and clinical (e.g., cardiology, endocrinology, oncology, pediatrics, and genetic counseling).

Emergency medicine and trauma management.

Research prevention and treatment of tropical parasitic diseases (Schistosomiasis, malaria, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis).

Research on maternal and child health problems and their epidemiology; family planning; food security and nutritional impairments.

Disciplines studying the sociocultural correlates of health: Medical Anthropology, Medical Geography, Demography, Sociology.

Clinical and basic research on cancer epidemiology, treatment, and etiology.

Environmental Health and environmental engineering.

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