Population Health Equity Concentrations

Population Health Equity concentrations

The Population Health Equity Concentration offers students in the School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine degree program the opportunity to engage in a concentrated area of longitudinal study that involves the application of concepts related to population and global health within the context of a domestic marginalized community. The concentrations are elective focused learning opportunities over the four-year MD curriculum that will culminate in an academic presentation or publication. Students will select from one of three concentrations available on both the Omaha and Phoenix campuses: 1) Population Health Equity Concentration in Indigenous and Rural Health; 2) Population Health Equity Concentration in Refugee and Immigrants health; and 3) Population Health Equity Concentration in Trauma-informed care.

Students will need to opt into the Population Health Equity concentration of choice by the Spring semester of the M1 year. A student pursues the concentration of choice based on their selection of elective course work within the M.D. curriculum.

Population Health Equity concentrations require a minimum of one Student Interest Selective (SIS) course and a Mission Outreach Selective (MOS) between the M1 and M2 year, a M3 clerkship rotation, a M4 clerkship elective, and eight hours of leadership service work per semester specific to selected track.

population Health Equity Concentration Objectives

Each Population Health Equity Concentration will:

Create domestic experiential, service, and accompaniment opportunities that integrate and implement population and global health key concepts of population/global health equity, population/global determinants of health, and liberation medicine in a local setting.
Enhance students’ professional identity and a sense purpose focusing on pragmatic solidarity to build lasting relationships with marginalized communities and work towards social and health justice.
Provide students with specialized knowledge and skills in specialized medical education and healthcare areas establishing them as leaders and advocates in health justice, domestically and globally.
Encourage lifelong learning and professional development that promotes mindful, culturally conscious and social justice and health-equity minded physicians.