Integration of community health teaching in the undergraduate medicine curriculum at the University of Toronto.

Background: In 1999, Determinants of Community Health was introduced at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. The course spanned all 4 years of the undergraduate curriculum and focused on addressing individual patient and community needs, prevention and population health, and diverse learning contexts.

Purpose: To demonstrate the value of an integrated, longitudinal approach to the efficiency of delivering a public health curriculum.