Community Medicine

Catalog description

A basic understanding of the public health, community medicine and social determinants of health are essential for any medical student. Medicine is moving more and more in the direction of population management. Population health and public health is an issue that needs to be addressed in medicine from the national policy level, healthcare system level, community level, clinic level, and even the individual patient level. This rotation will provide a basic introduction to the concepts of public health and community medicine as they apply to physicians today. Students will leave this rotation with an understanding of the importance of population medicine and public health. They will also understand how to begin to incorporate the basic concepts of public health and population management into their future practice. These concepts include but are not limited to epidemiology, biostatistics, health systems management, emergency preparedness, outbreak investigations, community health, injury prevention, mental health, and environmental health. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.