Featured Topic Article How a Community-Based Organization and an Academic Health Center Are Creating an Effective Partnership for Training and Service

Community–academic partnerships in the training of doctors offer unique learning opportunities of great impor-tance. Such partnerships can induce a paradigm shift such that physicians view community as a teaching resource and partner rather than as a passive recipient of services or solely as a placement site. The authors describe a model of a com-munity–academic partnership in New York City, begun in 1995, in which, for training and service, pediatric residents are integrally involved in a community-based program. Principles adapted fro