Medical Curricula and Preventing Childhood Obesity: Pooling the Resources of Medical Students and Primary Care to Inform Curricula

Medical students in their third and fourth year were invited to self-design special study modules (SSMs) exploring interventions and processes addressing the growing concern about childhood obesity. One student looked at the role of the primary care teams, two looked at community-based opportunities to improve physical activity in urban areas where there is significant deprivation and one student explored the complex role of the Education for Primary Care (2009) 20: 87–92 # 2009 Radcliffe Publishing Limited