Social Medicine Curriculum, 2024-2025

Health Equity Rounds (HERs) are case presentations created and delivered by residents with faculty guidance that center the effects of implicit bias and structural racism in clinical practice. These interactive meetings occur 3 times a year and examine historical and present-day implications of policies, stigma, and disparities experienced by specific populations and people with certain medical conditions or illnesses. Group and peer-learning activities offer novel approaches to clinical care and avenues for advocacy.

Our Social Medicine Rounds are an opportunity to connect our staff, faculty, trainees and community members to local and national leaders who discuss the medical, economic and psychosocial issues impacting the health and wellness of our Bronx community. We meet every 4th Tuesday of the month on a virtual platform that allows us to be in community, not just with our staff, trainees and faculty, but with other Bronx residents.

The Tri-Track sessions offer an intensive, interactive in-person session from 3:15- 6:00 pm with a focus on experiential learning from community members, activists, patients, and interdisciplinary providers who offer alternative views to the question of how we provide comprehensive, justice-oriented, equitable healthcare.

Led by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, this two-and-a-half-day workshop establishes a foundation for our antiracist work and guides trainees and faculty to address the impact of racism on all aspects of daily life, including in how we engage with each other and in clinical care delivery. At the end of the workshop, participants are able to identify and address the implicit and explicit instances of racism at play in various interpersonal and clinical interactions. Participants may also leave the experience better able to identify and examine ways in which issues of racism have impacted their lives, concepts of themselves, and experiences in their life.

Our Social Medicine Immersion Month is for our intern class across the peds, family medicine and internal medicine to meet, learn about structural issues impacting the Bronx community, and engage with key community members working to address these challenges.

These research projects provide an experiential learning activity through which residents can demonstrate knowledge and skills that are relevant to primary care practice and advocacy with a social medicine orientation/perspective. Completion of the Social Medicine project allows residents to demonstrate competence in multiple Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education domains, but especially in Practice-based Learning and Improvement and in Systems-Based Practice.

The Social Medicine Symposium is a time to meet as a community to highlight our social medicine curriculum and social justice work.

Social Medicine Showcases: 3-4 small group sessions focusing on ongoing social medicine initiatives by our present residents and faculty or by department alumni, 3:00-4:15 pm

Annual Harold Wise Memorial Lecture honoring Dr Harold Wise who developed the Residency Program in Social Medicine, 4:30-5:30 pm

Family and Social Medicine Poster Day highlighting department research and projects, 5:30-7:00 pm