Book review: Community based education in health professions

Community-based education (CBE) and social accountability of health professions schools are in the spotlight. Different institutions have used a variety of approaches to implement CBE. Learning about the approach followed, challenges faced, how they were overcome and lessons learned would be of interest to health educators in other institutions. The book provides a selection of case studies or ‘stories’ from Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, India, and South Africa. These schools emphasize student education in the community, integrating community medicine throughout the curriculum and preferentially admit poor students from rural areas and offer nurses and paramedicals the option to pursue a medical career.