PHM-Exch> Publicizing Social Medicine Course In Uganda

[Claudio Schuftan]

 Mike Westerhaus
Amy Finnegan
Course Co-Directors

 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, its directors and guest lecturers,
and SocMed. We have attached the 2013 Course Prospectus to this email for
your convenience.   Applications are due by June 30, 2012.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you have at
inquiries at socmedglobal.org
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