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PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1497474
This article is part of the Research Topic Innovative Teaching and Learning in Health Education and Promotion View all 23 articles
Integrating tuberculosis care cascade activities into medical education and training: experiences from a pilot intervention from rural Maharashtra, India
Provisionally accepted- 1 Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- 2 Maharashtra State Health Services, Pune, India
India has the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The mandatory Family Adoption Programme (FAP) visits to adopted villages by medical college teams is an excellent opportunity to do the ideal 'community screening' for TB in a door-to-door manner.We nested an active case finding activity for TB in the FAP visits by MBBS students in rural Pune, Maharashtra and the learnings and recommendations from this pilot intervention are detailed here. It is a sustainable and replicable activity for MBBS students and a great opportunity to collaborate with the national health programme.
Keywords: Family adoption programme, Active case finding, Tuberculosis care cascade, Medical Education, screening
Received: 17 Sep 2024; Accepted: 21 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Njarekkattuvalappil, Adhya, Patil and Darade. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Swathi Krishna Njarekkattuvalappil, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune, 411 030, Maharashtra, India
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