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Table 3 Input and output evaluation of Community Orientation Programme, Chittoor, India, 2016–19

From: Development of a community orientation program (COP) as a community-based medical education method for undergraduate medical students: an experience from India

Resources utilised

Number/ duration

Inputs related

 Teaching staff

Fifteen teachers (Three senior teachers, six junior teachers, four junior resident doctors, two medical officers including one gynaecologist, one statistician). In 2016, there were three junior teachers available.

 Non-teaching personnel

∙ Three medical social workers, and one lab technician (Intradepartmental)

∙ Bus drivers: Four in 2016, five from 2017 onwards

∙ Village volunteers: three to five in each COP

∙ Village health workers: three to five in each COP

 Instruments

∙ Weighing scale: five in 2016, 15 from 2017 onwards

∙ Sphygmomanometer- five in 2016, 15 from 2017

∙ Stethoscope: One for each student

∙ Measuring tape: One for each student

 Vehicles

Buses: four in 2016, five from 2017

Output-related

 Implementation of COP

∙ Number of villages covered: 10

∙ Number of households covered: 1370

∙ Number of people covered: 4923

∙ Number of group discussion in the afternoon sessions: 157

∙ Number of common health education programs conducted: 10

∙ Number of groups presented in the final presentation: 57