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Cork's mission is to assemble and disseminate current, authoritative information on substance abuse for clinicians, health care providers, human service personnel, and policy makers. Project Cork produces a bibliographic database, offers current awareness services, produces resource materials, responds to queries, and collaborates in professional education efforts. The CORK database of more than 75,000 holdings is searchable online.
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.
A unique body of experience and materials were developed by Project Cork. At the completion of the initial project, the Joan B Kroc Foundation, created the Project Cork Institute at Dartmouth Medical School to continue serving as a national resource for efforts nationally. Efforts then expanded beyond undergraduate medical education to included: issues on the college campus, the creation of Weekend Program for assessment and education for alcohol problems, and an international exchange with the then Soviet Union.
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