Medical Education
Overview
Teaching
Janine Bruce, DrPH, MPH is the Director of the Scholarly Concentration in Community Health. She teaches courses on the social and environmental determinants of Health (PEDS 250), and qualitative research methods (PEDS 202 A, B & C)
Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a new medical school curriculum that has, at its core, required scholarly concentrations. Scholarly Concentrations provide medical students with faculty-mentored scholarly experiences and structured curricula in areas of individual interest. Among concentrations that medical students may choose is Community Health.
Health systems and academic medicine, like many other institutions, have unintentionally developed and sustained structural inequities. To advance health equity, future physician leaders need to be trained to understand the root causes of poor health and ethically engage with communities to effectively address these drivers of health. There is significant evidence that environmental factors and social factors influence health behaviors and health outcomes more than access to care or the quality of the existing health care delivery system.
For more information on the Scholarly Concentration: Community Health click here.
Past Projects and News
Past Student Projects
- Cross-sectional analysis of disenrolled SCHIP patients in Santa Clara County. A phone survey of 900 families in three languages.
- Cross-sectional evaluation of a new farmers market in the Mayfair community in East San Jose as part of an initiative of the Healthy Santa Clara County Consortium.
- Medical student may also take the "Physician's in Society" course through the Practice of Medicine course (INDE 201) which focuses on health policy, community medicine, physician advocacy and bioethics.
David Chang connects community health with physician education
The Stanford Medicine section chief of community partnerships provides care at local homeless shelters, inspiring medical students to engage in community service.