MPAS 636 Underserved Medicine / EBM SCPE
MPAS 636 Evidence-Based Medicine & Underserved Medicine SCPE is a hybrid clinical practice experience that provides an opportunity to enhance learning of supervised clinical practice in underserved populations and areas as well as evidence based research. The Underserved Medicine SCPE portion of this course is a clinical practice experience providing an opportunity to gain supervised experience in the practice of medicine in underserved populations and areas. This SCPE exposes students to the diversity of health care needs and issues impacting general medical health in medically underserved populations and advances their knowledge about resources required to meet these needs. The Evidence-Based Medicine portion of this course is designed to ehance the promotion of knowledge, understanding, and application of development and framing of research questions, interpretation of basic biostatistical methods, education on the limits of medical research, instruction on data sampling methods, and the use of common databases to access medical literature. Students will be introduced to concepts of scientific and professional writing and communication. This course directly supports the program’s mission to develop graduates who practice competent patient-centered primary care with a focus on underserved populations.
Offered
Spring III