MD ID 6695 (2025/2026)

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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

Department: Medicine, Interdepartmental

Credit Range: 3 - 3

Academic Year: 2025/2026

Permission Required: No

School Years: MSIMSIIMSIIIMSIV

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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.

2025/2026

2024/2025

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