COM 10130 - Social Medicine

Cr Hrs: 1
PD

Social Medicine is a community-engaged course that explores health status as a product of historical, social, and policy forces and how those forces intersect with clinical practice. All topics attend to the intersection of social forces and clinical practices. The course pays special attention to how and why social and policy forces produce predictably worse health outcomes for stigmatized populations. It also examines the clinical practices that can produce disparities in quality of care and exacerbate disparities caused by social forces. The course is designed to increase structural competence in learners, a capacity to link root causes to disparate health outcomes related to social class, racialized identity, and other important social identity markers. It also cultivates cultural humility that can mitigate the impact of clinical determinants of health disparities.

Grade Mode: Pass/Fail

Mode of Delivery (Online or Hybrid): Hybrid
Instructional Method: Hybrid Lecture

Location offered: Memphis
Term offered: Fall

Fall - Instructor of Record: Austin Dalgo