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Health Equity Clerkship

The Health Equity Clerkship is a four-week clinical training experience that is unique to the course of study at the College of Medicine.

This clerkship provides training experiences in the fundamentals of ambulatory primary care medicine within the distinct contexts of physician shortage areas and medically underserved populations. Physicians often work with populations that are characteristic of uninsured, underinsured, identified at-risk and vulnerable populations. Through this clerkship, students will discover models of patient health care and management that address issues of literacy, economic stressors, and health determinants of the patient. These diverse communities provide powerful learning experiences. Due to the types of practices and their locations, students will practice in clinical environments that may not have a wealth of technical support and specialty networks. Students will be encouraged to develop clinical skills and outpatient diagnosis and management plans that take into consideration the limitations presented by the situation. At the end of the rotation students regularly report improvements in history-taking, physical exam, and note-writing skills. By virtue of the limitations imposed on them in these settings, primary care physicians regularly model for students how to be adaptive, collaborative, critical thinkers who make do with less. In short, these rich educational experiences allow students to progress toward Penn State’s vision of humanistic, systems-ready physicians who are adaptive, critical thinking, collaborative and scholarly.

Contact Us

Dr. Jonathan Nunez
Co-Clerkship Director
jnunez1@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Dr. Michael McShane
Clerkship Co-Director
mmcshane@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Chelsea Koch
Clerkship Coordinator
ckoch2@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
717-531-0003, ext. 285333

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Health Equity Clerkship

The Health Equity Clerkship (HEQ) is a clinical training experience that is unique to the course of study at the College of Medicine.

This clerkship provides training experiences in the fundamentals of ambulatory primary care medicine within the distinct contexts of physician shortage areas and medically underserved populations. Physicians often work with populations that are characteristic of uninsured, underinsured, identified at-risk and vulnerable populations. Through this clerkship, students will discover models of patient health care and management that address issues of literacy, economic stressors, and health determinants of the patient. These diverse communities provide powerful learning experiences. Due to the types of practices and their locations, students will practice in clinical environments that may not have a wealth of technical support and specialty networks. Students will be encouraged to develop clinical skills and outpatient diagnosis and management plans that take into consideration the limitations presented by the situation. At the end of the rotation students regularly report improvements in history-taking, physical exam, and note-writing skills. By virtue of the limitations imposed on them in these settings, primary care physicians regularly model for students how to be adaptive, collaborative, critical thinkers who make do with less. In short, these rich educational experiences allow students to progress toward Penn State’s vision of humanistic, systems-ready physicians who are adaptive, critical thinking, collaborative and scholarly.

Locations

Penn State – Colonnade
32 Colonnade Way
State College, PA 16803

Contact Us

Dr. Michael McShane
Clerkship Co-Director
mmcshane@pennstatehealth.psu.edu