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