This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The new NHS 'Long Term Plan' has a particular focus on the public health issues of disease prevention and reducing health inequalities. However, medical students often perceive public health as abstract and irrelevant to clinical practice. We believe students need to be encouraged to appreciate wider public health issues and ultimately be able to apply clinical and public health tools to achieve change for patients and populations. Our aim is for all medical graduates to be able to apply public health and evidence-based principles to their chosen specialties. In the undergraduate curriculum, we hope to extend problem-, case-, and simulation-based learning into public health education, emphasise the context around statistics and epidemiology teaching, and make the teaching more relevant, tangible and enjoyable. Intercalated BSc students will gain an interdisciplinary perspective by joining Master of Public Health (MPH) students to learn about the prevention and control of disease and the promotion of health and wellbeing. They will also have opportunities to join the new Health Intelligence Team (H.I.T.), on a voluntary reserve list to support Public Health Wales in the event of real investigations. We will evaluate these strategies, and we hope that medical educators worldwide will share their experience of innovative approaches to public health and evidence-based medicine teaching in response to this article, so that public health teaching may be improved.
Keywords: case-based learning; curriculum design; evidence-based medicine; healthcare sustainability; public health.
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