The Health Career Collaborative is an exciting and innovative link between high school students and teaching partners in health and medicine, designed to bring to life the possibilities of careers in healthcare to high school students who are under-represented in medicine. Participating medical students will visit both sophomore and junior classes on a bimonthly basis and teach a carefully constructed grade-specific curriculum over hour-long lunch-time sessions.
The Health Inequities selective provides students with the opportunity to engage in dialogues about the systemic obstacles to health that individuals may face across a variety of specialties.
Developed and led by faculty from the Masters in Health Innovation (MHI) degree, this selective will introduce participants to the science of innovation, human centered design, problem-solving and business development for innovative healthcare products and services.
Health justice has been described as a movement that aims to create and sustain conditions that address systemic inequalities to support health and justice for all members of society. In this selective, students will learn about and discuss some of the conditions that create racism, LGBTQ+ health, global health, access to abortion, and ableism. In these sessions, students will hear from experts and discuss how inequalities are created and sustained.
This selective explores health law, policy and advocacy through focused study of a single policy issue, as well as more general health law and policy introduction. It is augmented by in-person meetings with legislators and government relation professionals.
This selective introduces the concept of health literacy, what it is and is not, what research has been done, and why it matters. It also explores the world of consumer health information and assists with developing skills to talk with patients and the community at large about health topics.
This selective focus on Ukraine, the largest country located entirely within Europe, as a case study of health systems development, exploring themes in global health, public health, and health policy. Discussions will involve leaders in Ukrainian healthcare reform and public health efforts.
The Humanistic Elective in Activism, Reflective Transformation, and Integrative Medicine (HEART-IM) experience is designed to cultivate each participant’s vision of what it means to be a healer and support a plan for maintaining that vision throughout residency and beyond.
Students will see patients with anemia and other cytopenic workups, coagulation problems, diagnostic and staging workups for hematologic malignancies, and evaluation of myeloproliferative diseases.
This rotation will offer students the opportunity to experience and participate in the care of patients with hematology/oncology deficiencies, including hemopoietic stem cell transplantation.
