Population and Community Health Clerkship 2025

Our goals are to provide:

• relevant real-world context for understanding the implications of social and structural determinants on individual and community health,

• an expanded view of the clinician’s potential roles in the interprofessional work of public, population and community health and

• meaningful service toward community-identified goals​.

Interested in hosting a team?  Check out resources under the Team Leader tab. 

Descriptions due April 25. 

In this clerkship, students will: 

● Collect, synthesize, and/or explain relevant population or community-level data  ​

● Learn best practice for connecting patients with interprofessional team members who care for specific populations in the community​

● Use clinician voice for advocacy with a population to improve social and structural determinants of health ​

 ● Apply knowledge in meaningful service toward community-identified goals​

This clerkship provides opportunity for learners to demonstrate achievement of the following milestones: 

• Adv1E. Understands the determinants of health of individual patients and vulnerable populations, recognizing the impact on healthcare access, wellness and disease and uses knowledge to improve patient care.

• Adv3E. Understands the physician’s obligation of contributing to the common good and designs projects or activities that enhance the well-being of others.

• Nav1E. Understands the dual roles of quality improvement and patient safety in healthcare, participating in the identification of, and response to, performance gaps in in existing processes.

• Nav2E. Operates within a variety of healthcare settings, collaborating with interprofessional personnel, and gaining higher-level knowledge of processes including financing and transitions of care.

• Nav4E. Applies knowledge of population health and health equity to how health outcomes vary within and across populations.