Coursework

Health Equity Scholar Pathways may also be obtained by the completion of coursework in the following areas:

4th Year Electives

  • Correctional Medicine
  • Medical Spanish Language
  • Health in Minoritized Communities
  • Health Disparities
  • Antiracism in Healthcare
  • Psychological Safety and Socialization of Medical Training
  • Individual Designed Elective (with approval)


Medical Humanities

  • Gender Identity Ethics
  • LGBTQIA Ethics and Medicine
  • Feminist Ethics
  • Ethics

Family and Community Medicine

  • Minority Health
  • Care Facilitation in Vulnerable Populations
  • Patient Education

Population Science and Policy

  • Advancing Health Equity in Clinical Practice
  • Cancer Health Disparities

Psychiatry

  • Outpatient Psychiatry

To Successfully Complete the Program, Health Equity Scholars Will Achieve Levels of Certification:

  • Level 1 – 20 credits
  • Level 2 – an additional 15 credits totaling 35 credits
  • Level 3 – an additional 15 credits totaling 50 credits

Level 1 – 20 Credits

  • A total of 20 credits of professional and personal growth chosen from one of the program areas
  • Education

Level 2 – 35 Credits

  • A total of 35 credits of professional and personal growth chosen from one of the program areas
  • Education and Community Engagement 

Level 3 - 50 Credits for certification or graduation distinction

  • A total of 50 credits of professional and personal growth chosen from one of the program areas
  • Education and Community Engagement
  • Educational Scholarship 
  • Participants will have created the necessary research and scholarship along with their professional learning communities to design a Capstone Project to be included in the Kenniebrew Forum. Students who reach this level will have a Graduation Distinction.

Graduation with Distinction following successful completion of the program:

  • Students will be presented with a certificate at graduation certifying their designation as a Health Equity Medical Education Scholar.


Successful completion of the Health Equity Scholar Pathway program will include some of the following identified dimensions of diversity:

  • Race
  • Ethnicity
  • Religion
  • Sex
  • Sexual orientation
  • Gender identity
  • Veteran status
  • Age
  • Socioeconomic status (i.e. the unbanked)
  • Geographic 
  • Ability
  • Those experiencing homelessness