# Integrating tuberculosis care cascade activities into medical education and training: experiences from a pilot intervention from rural Maharashtra, India

## TL;DR

This paper describes a pilot program in India where medical students helped screen for tuberculosis in rural communities.

## Contribution

The study introduces a sustainable method to integrate TB screening into medical education through community visits.

## Key findings

- Medical students successfully conducted door-to-door TB screening during FAP visits.
- The intervention is sustainable and can be replicated in other regions.
- Collaboration with national health programs is feasible and beneficial.

## Abstract

India has the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The mandatory Family Adoption Programme (FAP) visits to adopted villages by medical college teams is an excellent opportunity to do the ideal “community screening” for TB in a door-to-door manner. We nested an active case finding activity for TB in the FAP visits by MBBS students in rural Pune, Maharashtra and the learnings and recommendations from this pilot intervention are detailed here. It is a sustainable and replicable activity for MBBS students and a great opportunity to collaborate with the national health programme.