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Objectives
- Encourage the development of high quality curricula in
schools of medicine or osteopathy that will significantly
increase the opportunities for students, house staff, and others,
including practicing physicians and nurses, to learn the
principles and practice of preventing, managing, and controlling
TB
- Develop and implement interdepartmental programs with common
goals and standardized diagnostic and therapeutic approaches
- Promote interdepartmental communication between primary care
and other specialists to ensure appropriate control and treatment
strategies
- Encourage applied research in the control of TB
- Promote the development of a faculty capable of providing
appropriate instruction in diagnosis and management of TB, with
special emphasis on minority faculty, nursing, and infection
control personnel
- Promote coordinated clinical approaches to the care of
patients of various ages and ethnic groups who have TB
- Provide for outreach programs from medical centers to health
practitioners in the community, especially home care agencies, to
enhance optimal care, especially in areas of high TB
morbidity
- Update the knowledge and skills of practicing physicians,
nurses and other health care providers in the community
- Focus educational efforts on health care providers in
areas where there is a persistently high incidence of TB,
such as in immigrant communities, refugee centers, shelters for
the homeless, and in correctional facilities
- Enhance the awareness of health care providers of the unique
ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, and medical dimensions of TB
- Coordinate and collaborate with other community organizations
to control TB in areas with a high incidence of TB
- Facilitate an interchange of ideas and methods between
awardees and institutions
- Enhance tuberculosis education programs in minority medical
schools and promote TB education in the communities served by
these institutions
