The primary goal of the Underserved Health Care track is to enhance your overall competency in providing quality health care to the underserved or homeless populations.
In this track you will:
- Develop reflective skills by identifying and exploring personal attitudes and motivation while caring for this population.
- Acquire knowledge and skills to effectively and comfortably provide for their special health care needs now and throughout your future medical career.
- Effectively utilize available community resources required to provide comprehensive care and to address the challenges specific to the care of this special population.
- Develop competencies to become an effective social and political advocate for their special needs.
Learning/service activities include:
- Caring for patients in homeless clinics or shelters.
- LCE visits and primary care block experiences in underserved clinics/sites including the SHARING Clinics.
- Monthly seminars.
- Underserved and/or international elective experiences.
- Underserved Project.
- The Underserved Project includes a literature review on a related topic of the student’s interest, assessment and prioritization of current needs, development and implementation of an intervention and an evaluation of the success of the intervention.
Faculty Contact:
Jim Medder, MD, MPH
jmedder@unmc.edu
or
Ruth Margalit, MD
rmargalit@unmc.edu
