Medical Student Handbook

Student Enrichment Programs

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The Office of Student Enrichment Programs includes Community Outreach, International Medicine, and Student Research Programs. Together these programs serve to broaden the scope of medical education to include health, social, and academic experiences beyond the classroom. The goal of these experiences is to create cross-culturally competent physicians instilled with the understanding and desire to serve their many communities - professional, local, and global.

Adrienne Morgan, Director
Santina Tu, Program Assistant
(585) 275-4172
(585) 273-1016 FAX

Community Outreach: Students of Rochester Outreach (SRO)

Since 1987, the Students of Rochester Outreach Program has placed first through fourth year medical students and graduate students at agencies serving the urban poor. Placement occurs prior to any core clerkship experience, allowing students to focus on social and cultural determinants of health and disease without the pressure of solving a medical problem. Student participation is voluntary. The goal of these placements is to give students the opportunity to serve the community while working on interdisciplinary teams to acquire skills that will allow them to provide culturally competent care to underserved populations.

Specific program objectives are to:

1. emphasize community-based, preventative, health-oriented, interdisciplinary approaches to medical practice, rather than the more traditional disease-oriented, discipline focused, technical approaches;
2. act as a vehicle for students to serve the community;
3. appreciate areas of community health need first-hand;
4. enhance students' cross-cultural awareness;
5. help students become more knowledgeable of the range of community services available to physicians and other care givers.

Students volunteer at agencies serving individuals most at risk in the community. These include the homeless, teenage parents, low-income families, and school children. Student activities also include public health education talks on HIV prevention, parenting, nutrition, and sexually transmitted disease prevention. Summer work-study research opportunities in the community are also available.

International Medicine Programs

International Medicine Programs provide opportunities and support for students interested in enriching their medical education with hands-on experience in a cross-cultural environment.

Opportunities are available in a variety of sites, including the following: Mali, Poland, Latin America, Israel, Germany, Taiwan, and the Caribbean.

The program goals are fourfold:

• To give students hands-on experience providing health care both in Rochester and overseas, and to broaden students' perspective on approaches to disease prevention, treatment, and resource allocation in diverse health care systems.
• To promote the exchange of ideas and practices in health care and medical research through exposure to health care professionals around the world.
• To capture the idealism of students and faculty seeking to apply "first-world" knowledge and compassion to problems of human suffering.
• To incorporate students into multidisciplinary teams to enhance their appreciation of the expertise of other health and social service disciplines.

Student Research

Summer and year-out research opportunities are available to medical and graduate students who wish to nurture their interests and abilities in academic medicine through experiences outside of the classroom. These experiences may be in clinical or basic science research. While a number of opportunities are available through the University of Rochester, students also receive information via e-mail on research opportunities through other institutions. Students are encouraged to combine their local or international interests with research experiences.

Marvin J. Hoffman Day

The Office of Student Enrichment Programs and the School of Medicine and Dentistry held the Second Annual Marvin J. Hoffman Day on Thursday, March 9, 2000. This half-day event highlighted medical student participation in Community Outreach, International Health, and Student Research. The activities included an afternoon poster session and an award ceremony, which honored the best student project in each of the three areas of participation and one award for a faculty mentor. The award-winning students presented their work to an audience of faculty, students, and other interested members of the UR community. These presentations were followed by a keynote address by a guest speaker. Finally, the day closed with a reception. Faculty, staff, and students alike are looking forward to the next occurrence of this new tradition at the School of Medicine and Dentistry.