Community-Based Advocacy Elective

Catalog description

This four-week long course is an elective available to students enrolled in Phase III. The aim of this course is to 1) establish a service learning elective rotation for medical students to be embedded in a community organization, 2) have students actively apply their knowledge and skills in the Quintuple Aim (i.e., health equity, provider satisfaction, patient satisfaction, population health, lowering costs) by engaging in a continuous quality improvement project identified by the community organization, and 3) teach students the practicalities and barriers to identifying and addressing health inequities so they learn how to advocate for change.