Questions Pretest Mean Posttest Mean p-value
Understand health and risk assessment 3.81 4.43 0.003
Understand role of family physician in health promotion/disease prevention 4.29 4.67 0.021
Understand role of family physician in population/community based medicine 3.67 4.62 0.001
Understand  basic concepts and tools of epidemiology 3.38 4.19 0.001
Understand how to use statistics 3.33 4.00 0.003
Can identify national and local sources of health data and evaluate effectiveness 3.05 4.19 0.001
Understand barriers in preventing health care and improve accessibility 3.71 4.48 0.005
Understand health care system and how it affects physician/patient care 3.62 4.43 0.001
Understand caring for individuals within context of their families and community 4.19 4.52 0.035
Understand the general aspects of community organization 3.57 4.48 0.001
Interest in clinical and non-clinical  experiences with minority communities 4.10 4.38 0.166
Understand environmental and occupational health aspects of community health 3.71 4.38 0.012
Understand international health 3.33 4.14 0.011
Understand principles of community-based participatory research 3.14 4.38 0.000
Understand primary, secondary and tertiary prevention 3.95 4.33 0.011
Aware  of different models of patient care 3.62 4.29 0.010
Recognize the needs of both the individual and the community 4.14 4.48 0.020
Cultural beliefs, values and practices which influence self as a cultural person 4.10 4.52 0.003
Interest in research/evaluation of community interventions 4.05 4.48 0.007
Like to learn more about community oriented primary care/community medicine 4.29 4.38 0.564
*Wilcoxon signed-rank test
Table 3: Pre- and post-knowledge and attitudes* (N=21).a