MD ID 6650 (2021/2022) 08/03/2021-11/16/2021

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Course: MD ID 6650 - Applied Community Health: Tribal, Rural, Underserved (TRU)

Description: Physicians in rural, remote or medically underserved communities depend on a diverse skill set that often goes well beyond clinical care. In small or resource limited communities, physicians are often called upon to lead efforts related to community health assessments and improvement, clinical care quality assurance and improvement, public health promotion and education, monitoring and evaluation of health programs and local non-profit or voluntary organizational missions. Through a mixture of online learning, didactic coursework and mentorship, students who complete this course will gain skills in community and organizational leadership, developing and improving health interventions and programs and planning a capstone community-oriented health improvement (COHI) project that will be implemented during the MSIII and IV year.

This course is the 1st semester of the 2nd year continuum of education to support the Graduate Certificate in Rural & Underserved Medicine (GCRUM). It complements the 1st year courses, MDID 6550 (Introduction to Population Health in the Rural United States) and MDID 6555 (Rural Health Care Systems, Delivery & Resources), currently offered to UUSOM medical students and aimed at medical students who want to further explore or who intend to pursue a medical career in a rural and/or underserved community.

Course Objectives:

As a result of successfully completing the Applied Community Health in Rural Setting, students will be able to:
1. Describe what is meant by community health and the approach taken by stakeholders to promote this
2. Describe the collaborative approach to community health and development in rural communities, including best practices in defining problems, accessing resources, engaging local expertise, and measuring outcomes in resource limited communities.
3. Describe the non-clinical responsibilities that rural health care providers assume and the necessary skill-set required to promote community-wide health efforts.
4. Discuss the importance of quality improvement and assurance in health care organizations, and how to utilize quality improvement methodology to advance the care of individual patients and the health outcomes of a
population.
5. Utilize the acquired knowledge in applied community health to identify and outline a COHI project in preparation for the Capstone Project to be completed during the MSIII/IV years.

Academic Year: 2021/2022

Start Date: 08/03/2021

End Date: 11/16/2021

Block: FALL

Department: MD ID

Permission Required: No

Section Credits: 1.5

Min Openings: 1

Max Openings: 30

School Years: MSIMSIIMSIII

Course Classifications: ELECTIVE

Coordinator(s): SPENCER,OLIVIA DC | olivia.spencer@hsc.utah.edu

Directors(s): Sandweiss,David DD | david.sandweiss@hsc.utah.edu

Possible Grade(s): Fail (F)Pass (P)

Prerequisites: None

Add Policy: Course may be added to schedule 30 days before it starts.

Drop Policy: Course may be dropped from schedule 30 days before it starts.

Syllabus: No syllabus.