Community Medicine

As part of the required Third Year Clerkship in Family Medicine, each student spends on-half day each week working with a community organization serving the underserved. The purpose of the COPC/Service Learning experience is to increase each student's understanding of the primary care needs of the underserved in our community while simultaneously working with community organizations to help address these needs. Students work with addiction services organizations, schools, pre-school centers, domestic violence organizations, and other community partners providing health education, screening and other services.

Equity in Action Summer Internship Program (EASI) at Rutgers University

The RBHS Office of Interprofessional Programs is excited to introduce a new seven-week paid summer interprofessional program, Equity in Action Summer Internship Program (EASI) at Rutgers University. This program is open to Rutgers graduate health professions’ students in good academic standing.

The program will focus on social determinants of health with a social justice lens (e.g., racial equity, environmental justice). Students will work in interprofessional teams of 3-4 and will be placed at one of our participating community sites in the greater Newark or Central New Jersey areas where they will co-create a program with the guidance of a community site preceptor and EASI co-directors.

Interprofessional teams of students will develop a deep understanding of social determinants of health by working directly with the people served by an agency, reviewing and discussing evidence-based materials, and attending in-person and virtual workshops that will provide new skills and a broader understanding of diverse populations who are under-resourced.

To learn more about EASI see: https://oipp.rbhs.rutgers.edu/equity-in-action-summer-internship-program/  or contact the EASI co-directors: Maria Pellerano, MA, MBA, MPH (maria.pellerano@rutgers.edu) or Sarah Kelly, MPH (kellysw@sph.rutgers.edu). 

DISC – Distinction in Service to the Community

The DISC program is run though the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and is one of three distinction programs at the medical school.