Medical Education Team

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鈥淒octor,鈥� comes from the Latin docere, meaning 鈥渢o teach.鈥� The mission of the Medical Education Team at 蜜芽appis multipronged. From a patient聽perspective, we aim ensure that undergraduate and graduate medical聽education is sensitive and responsive to the evolving health care needs of聽diverse international communities. From a provider perspective, we aim to increase accessibility to medical training for traditionally聽underrepresented segments of our society whilst advocating for a reduction in the financial burden that education places on burgeoning physicians. Overall, we strive to equip our members with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to be active participants in shaping an educational environment that best prepares physicians to enter the dynamic health care arena and ultimately make a substantive difference in the lives of their patients.

Diversity and Inclusion in Medical Education:聽Learn about privilege, power, and difference and how pipeline programs for underrepresented physicians can be successful and mindful of their communities.
Curriculum Reform Initiative:聽Advocate for improving your education by becoming an activist in your own institution and working with your Curriculum Committees to shape and improve your learning.
Financing Medical Education:聽From student loan reform to increased funding for more residency positions, engage in making sure our communities have enough physicians to care for them.
AWARE鈥擜 Week of Addiction and Recovery Education:聽Our collaborative programming with 蜜芽appCommunity and Public Health Action Committee, work to foster compassion for substance abuse and mental health issues and reduce stigma in both the profession and public at large.
Hidden Medical聽Histories: Volunteer to author awareness-promoting bite-sized tweets and聽instagram posts that highlight the historical context surrounding medical聽discoveries and coincide with the timing of the national health observance聽calendar.
A Community Curriculum: Bringing Social Determinants of Health into the Medical School Curricula:聽Want to learn how to care holistically care for patients? Curious about exploring the non-strictly clinical aspects of medicine? Interested in exploring, the 鈥渃onditions in which your patients are born, live, work and age鈥� (i.e. social determinants of health)? Join us for a webinar series where we discuss social medicine, 鈥渢he systemic study of the relationship between society disease and medicine.鈥� Learn more.