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Education
Medical Education
for Students
Introduction to Clinical Medicine (ICM) I & II – Special Spanish
Section
This highly competitive course provides selected students the
opportunity to improve their Spanish grammar and conversational
skills and learn specific medical Spanish vocabulary in an
integrated language curriculum based on ICM I and II content.
Beyond language acquisition, this innovative curriculum ensures
that students demonstrate a high level of cultural awareness and
competence related to the Hispanic/Latino community and provides
a variety of opportunities for hands-on learning. An 8-week
immersion experience in Honduras is the capstone of this course.
CARE FOR THE UNDERSERVED ELECTIVE
This special month-long experience emphasize high quality care for
medically underserved populations and introduces students to a
full-spectrum Family Medicine practice in an urban community health
center setting. Topics covered include health disparities,
understanding barriers to care, and cultural competence. Students
fluent in Spanish are precepted by Spanish-speaking physician in a
setting serving a large Hispanic/Latino Population. Selected
research topics related to underserved populations, health
disparities and Hispanic/Latino health issues are presented on the
last Thursday of the course.
Appropriate Use of Medical Interpreters
Combining the lecture/discussion format with an interactive,
hands-on component, all 3rd year medical students
receive training on how to appropriately use medical language
interpreters. Spanish-speaking standardized patients and IUPUI
Interpreter students team with medical students to role-play
“clinical” encounters that allow medical students to practice
appropriate verbal and nonverbal interactions with both patients
and interpreters.
INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE SPECIAL
ELECTIVE: HONDURAS
This 4-8 week elective in Honduras provides 3rd and 4th year medical
students a quality international immersion experience. Week 1
engages students in a 5-day Medical Brigade providing primary care
services to remote mountain communities.
Weeks 2-8 allow 2 distinct
opportunities: Bilingual students work in ambulatory and/or hospital
settings and are precepted by Honduran physicians at Hospital
Escuela and/or Alonzo Suazo Health Center in Tegucigalpa; Hospital
Evangelico in Sigutepeque; or with a community-based primary care
physician in Taulabe.
Non-or Limited Spanish speaking
students learn Spanish in an intensive one-to-one immersion
environment five half-days a week while spending three half-days
precepted by a Honduran physician providing health care delivery at
Hospital Salvador Parades in Trujillo, Honduras.
All students live with Honduran
host-families during weeks 2-8 and stay in modest hostel-style
facilities during week 1.
HISPANIC/LATINO MENTORING PROGRAM
Established in response to the increasing interested in caring for
the Hispanic/Latino population, this program provides an opportunity
for medical students to receive individual mentoring on a monthly
basis from an Hispanic physician working with underserved
populations. Topics covered include cultural competence in caring
for the Hispanic/Latino patient, understanding barriers to care,
health disparities, community resources, career guidance and
professional development.
The program provides students with a
platform to exercise and polish leadership skills through planning
and implementation of outreach and service activities. It prepare
students to advise incoming Hispanic/Latino students, as well as
non-H/L students interested in caring for underserved populations,
about the many resources and opportunities available for academic
support and mental and physical well-being.
SOCIETY OF LATINOS ACTIVITIES
SOL was established during the 2002-2003 academic year for the
purpose of unifying and providing support for both Latino medical
students and all other students interested in participating in the
Latino community. Additionally, SOL seeks to inform the student body
and encourage participation in educational opportunities that
further clinical training, polish Spanish-speaking skills and
increases understanding of healthcare disparities in the Latino
community.
SOL offers a variety of community
educational activities and outreach efforts. Currently SOL students:
- Offer a smoking cessation program
in Spanish for the fast growing Hispanic/Latino community of
Indianapolis. This program is on-going and qualifies as
fulfillment of competency level III in communication and/or
social/community context awareness.
- Participate in Hispanic Health
Fairs throughout Indianapolis offering medical interpretation
services and providing health education to the community.
- Visit schools and community
organizations through the “Doctors Back to School” program to help
young minority children realize they, too, can follow the same
path and have a career in medicine.
- Provide mentoring and support
opportunities for incoming Hispanic/Latino students as well as the
planning of scientific and recreational activities
INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HEALTH
STUDENT INTEREST GROUP
The Global Health and International Medicine Student Interest Group
focuses on increasing awareness around global health care needs.
Students are encouraged to engage in global thinking and participate
in international medical education opportunities. To this end, this
group has focused on establishing an international medical student
exchange between the IUSM and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
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