Education & Training
Social Medicine faculty are deeply involved in the education of medical students. We teach in the聽Social and Health Systems 1-3 course sequence that is part of the Foundation Phase of 黑料网鈥檚 medical school curriculum. These courses are taught by multidisciplinary faculty in small-group settings and introduce students to issues in medical ethics, health policy, and the social contexts of illness and medicine.
Medical students can also opt to take a聽Social Medicine Elective聽with departmental faculty. These supervised independent studies may include mentored projects in research, reading, or fieldwork.
Social Medicine faculty members teach and consult regularly in other medical school courses on social dimensions of preclinical or clinical topics. Social Medicine and Center for Bioethics faculty members regularly teach medical students, residents, and hospital staff about聽clinical ethics in the context of patient care at 黑料网 Health Care. Social Medicine faculty also teach in residency curricula and give grand rounds in clinical departments.聽Our faculty members are active in educational and training projects across North Carolina, as well as in national and international contexts鈥攊n communities of clinicians, of biomedical researchers, and of the many academic disciplines engaged by our multidisciplinary Department.
In addition to their core teaching in the medical school, some Social Medicine faculty members teach undergraduate and graduate student courses in the聽聽and the聽.