**4.3 Reorientation of Medical Education camp (ROME camp)**

The ROME camp is organized for students for 2 weeks, after the second professional examination. This time, students stay at one of the rural health and training centers of the MGIMS, Sewagram. The camp is organized with the following objectives:


During this camp, visits are arranged for students to different levels of healthcare facilities and to interact with health-care providers. Over the years, we started involving the district-level program officers/managers including district health officer and civil surgeon, Wardha, for providing practical teaching to the medical students during the camp. They also share their experiences related to various facilitation factors, barriers, and challenges in the implementation of the health program. Usually, the clinical case presentation for undergraduate students takes place in the premises of the hospital, but taking the advantage of ROME camp, communitybased clinical case presentation at the family level is organized under the supervision of the faculty members from the clinical specialties. Thus, students understand the role of social and environmental factors in health and diseases. They are also exposed to the various sociocultural factors and established community practices in the village, which have a strong bearing on health and diseases as well as with the health-seeking behaviors of the community. The students are also given opportunity to plan, collect the data, analyze it, and write the report on small community-based surveys on various priority health issues related to community health needs.
