M UCH emphasis has been given to the team approach in providing health services, and to the need for students of the health sciences to receive part of their educational experience outside the professional school or medical center (1-3). These concepts are being tested at the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky College of Medicine has always considered the community as a laboratory. Its philosophy embraces the idea that the student must learn to look at the health of a community and make appropriate diagnoses-just as he must learn to look at the health problems of one patient and make a diagnosis. The college's department of community medicine sends students into a community to live and to study its health status during a required 6-week senior clerkship. The experiences of these students have been described elsewhere (4-6), and the pertinent aspects of the clerkship are discussed later in this report. The faculty of the new department of community health in the university's School of Allied Health Professions has more recently developed a course that is designed to focus the students' attention beyond the individual patient to his family and the community. At the culmination of the course, the allied health students team with medical students in fieldwork in communities. Thus all the students receive a much broader experience than they can possibly receive at the medical center alone.