ProjectCork.org
Title
Welcome to Project Cork Online
Contact
- Jean Kinney
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- Norwch VT
- US 05055
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- +1.8026493540
Description
A new era.
ProjectCork.org has been formed to capitalize on the unique and powerful capacity of the internet to secure information. The goal is to provide immediate access to authoritative information and materials on substance abuse, useful to health and human service professionals, educators and their students, and those in public policy.
Not everyone one has the access to or the time available to read the scholarly journals, or doesn't have ready access to someone who can translate some of these materials as well as separate out the factual from the faddish. The purpose of ProjectCork.org is to help deal with this dilemma. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. Beyond being able to search databases to find original scholarly work, effort is also directed to pulling together and synthesizing this information in a form that is useful to busy clinicians, and can be trusted to represent best practices.
A brief history.
Project Cork was founded at Dartmouth Medical School in 1977, through a grant from the Operation Cork, an arm of the Kroc Foundation. Its mission was to develop a model alcohol curriculum that could be adapted and adopted by other medical schools nationally. The project was organized as a school-wide initiative, and was implemented in a step-wise fashion, beginning with the class that entered in 1978. For the details see Project Cork: A Case History in Curriculum Development. It sets forth the philosophy, the process used, the obstacles encountered, the changes introduced, and the effectiveness of different strategies. Publications by and about this effort are listed below, as well as the model curriculum developed. To provide consultation to the project and a real life laboratory for exploring what would be entailed in transplanting the curriculum elsewhere, a five school consortium was formed.- with a mix of educational institutions - large and small, public and private, old and new, racial/ethnic diversity, and regions of the country.
