COMD 3051

Junior Community Medicine Clerkship

Required of all generalist students. The six-week Community Medicine Clerkship is designed to provide an opportunity to better understand community medicine and population health issues. This experience will expose students to how a smaller community addresses the health care needs of its citizens. Roughly half of the clerkship will be in the clinical care settings working with physicians and other health care professionals from a variety of specialties in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The other half will be spent in the community participating in a variety of experiences designed to create understanding of common health needs of the community, the impact of culture on health, health education, methods to reach underserved populations, and the nonclinical roles of physicians in the community. Each group of students will participate in a community project during the clerkship as well as a rural outreach health fair focused on delivering preventive services to rural underserved areas. This rotation is required for all students and will be conducted in Sevierville, Tennessee. Housing will be provided.

Units: 12.0