MD ID 6695 (2025/2026) 02/16/2026-03/01/2026

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Course
MD ID 6695 - RUUTE Community Engagement Experience (CEE)
Description
The RUUTE Community Engagement Experience (CEE) is an opportunity to apply public health practices and population health science in a community health improvement project. During this course, medical students will travel to a rural and/or underserved location in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, or Montana to complete hands-on learning with providers of different specialties. CEE sites will be pre-determined based on student, preceptor, and housing availability. Students will also participate in volunteer opportunities within the community. Additionally, they will be required to gather community specific data (community assets, demographics, epidemiology) and complete community interviews to identify a pressing health concern in their community. Through the knowledge learned from these experiences, medical students will create and disseminate a community deliverable/intervention that addresses the public health concern they identified. At the completion of the experience, they will develop a poster presentation that reflects their community data and intervention that will be presented later in the fall during a research symposium.

Various assignments will be completed (described below) to draw deeper into the students' experience as a health professional in rural and/or underserved communities and to help them develop their community deliverable/intervention. Community deliverable topics will come out of a community assessment and may focus on any number of public health topics, including: physical health (e.g. diabetes), behavioral health (e.g. substance use disorders), social determinants of health (e.g. income level), and emerging issues (vaccination resistance). 1

Summary of Course Components:
2.Complete hands-on clinical learning (ensure enrollment in MDID 6580 RUUTE Community Preceptorship or TRUE Tribal Elective
3.Volunteer in the community
4.Investigate and create a community deliverable, which the student will implement/propose to the community
5.Once the CEE experience is completed, the student will reflect on their experience and create a poster presentation to summarize their intervention in the community
Academic Year
2025/2026
Start Date
02/16/2026
End Date
03/01/2026
Block
SPRING
Department
MD ID
Permission Required
Yes
Section Credits
2
Min Openings
1
Max Openings
6
School Years
MSIMSIIMSIII
Course Classifications
HSSPHASE_3REQUIRED
Coordinator(s)
CARTER,MADELYN CC | u0933767@utah.eduMorales,Roman CC | roman.morales@hsc.utah.eduHansen,Randy CC | u0792901@utah.edu
Directors(s)
Lyden,Stephanie CD | stephanie.lyden@hsc.utah.eduHansen,Lucy CD | lucy.hansen@hsc.utah.edu
Possible Grade(s)
Fail (F)Pass (P)
Prerequisites
None
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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.
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