Early community-based teaching of medical undergraduates for achieving better working skills in the community.

Introduction: It has been perceived that there is a lack of community exposure and active learning in the community for the first-year undergraduates in Community Medicine. This study is designed to evaluate an early community exposure given to the students to help overcome these lacunae.

Methodology: In this study, the first-year students ( = 44) were provided an early community exposure and evaluated to understand their perceptions by a prevalidated, pre- and post exposure questionnaire.