The ADZU-SOM is committed to the challenge of re-orienting medical education towards social accounta-bility. To achieve this we introduced the Community Oriented & Community Based Medical Curriculum along with the Problem Based Learning Model and Competency Based student assessment. In this curriculum, students spend close to 50 percent of their curricular time in the University, Hospitals and clinics, while the other half is committed to rural community based learning, where students get engaged with the local people, living with them, and helping them identify their health problems. In this setting the community becomes the laboratory for student formation. Students use the intersectoral approach to provide a forum for community empowerment, to solve the local health problems. These experiences stress the development of desirable attitudes and values towards social concerns and commitment to community medicine; but they also provide opportunities to practice clinical medicine in response to the local needs. While using this collaborative strategy, all students are required to do an interventional research project, targeting various health problems identified as a local priority. It is anticipated that these intersectoral strategies, involving the community people, along with research to find solutions to local health issues, and related targeted projects, will provide the collective impetus to solve the major and varied health problems of the region. Included in this manuscript are the various health interventional projects of the students in participation with the community for the school year 2014-2015.

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