Social Medicine Course 2013 Northern Uganda
SocMed invites students to apply for the fourth annual course Beyond the Biologic Basis of Disease: The Social and Economic Causation of Illness, a social medicine immersion experience conducted on-site at Lacor Hospital in Gulu, Uganda from January 7, 2013 to February 1, 2013. This unique immersion course incorporates innovative teaching methodologies to merge teaching of clinical tropical medicine with understanding the socioeconomic, cultural, political, and historical underpinnings of illness. Through a combination of lectures, small and large group discussions, films, community field visits, ward rounds, and clinical case discussions, the study of clinical medicine in a resource-poor setting is intersected with social medicine topics such as the social determinants of health, globalization, war, human rights, community-based health care, and narrative medicine. Enrollment is open to fifteen 3rd and 4th year medical students from across the globe, and includes equal participation of Ugandan medical students, and credit for away-rotations can be arranged.
This course is offered through SocMed, an organization that advocates for and implements global health curricula founded on the study of social medicine. By engaging medical students though careful examination of the social and economic contexts of health and immersing them in partnership with a diverse group of students from around the world, we aim to foster innovative leaders who are ready to tackle challenging health problems in communities around the world.
SocMed utilizes a curriculum that places great importance on building personal partnerships and encouraging students to reflect upon their personal experiences with power, privilege, race, class, gender, and sexual orientation as central to effective partnership building in global health. In the spirit of praxis (a model of education that combines critical reflection with action) these components of the course give students the opportunity to discern their role in global health and social medicine through facilitated, in-depth conversations with core faculty and student colleagues. Please feel free to visit our website, www.socmedglobal.org, for more information about the course, to view the course prospectus and application, its directors and guest lecturers, and SocMed. We have attached the 2013 Course Prospectus to this posting below for your convenience. Applications are due by June 30, 2012.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you have at inquiries@socmedglobal.org
Sincerely,
Michael Westerhaus, MD, MA
Amy Finnegan, Ph.D.
Course Directors
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