Teaching Future Doctors to See Patients as People, Not Conditions
The new medical school curriculum highlights social factors and other historically overlooked aspects of health care
Advance the Health of Populations
To work together to improve health outcomes locally and globally
Sub-goals
- Develop clinical, academic and community partnerships to address local population health needs
Research
- Articulate a vision for a community serving research agenda including clinical translational science, population health and public health
Education/Clinical and Public Health Practice
- Train students on principles of care management of clinical populations
- Increase the primary care workforce
- Train students on the principles and practices of public health, including but not limited to the important role that clinicians and clinical care play in public health
- Train students on interprofessional approaches to improve population health and public health
- Train students to advocate for the health of populations
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