SOCIAL MEDICINE AT UNC SOM

MEDICINE AND SOCIETY BECOMES SOCIAL MEDICINE:

FOUR DECADES, BUT NO MIDLIFE CRISIS, yet…

BASIC SCIENCE RULES!

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ARE CUTE AND UNDERPOWERED…

STEP 1 OWNS YOU!

But in the TEC Curriculum…

WE COLLABORATE ACROSS SPECIES, COURSES, DISCIPLINES, AND GALAXIES

What is SHS??

• SHS 1 Social Dimensions of Illness & Doctoring
• SHS 2 Medical Ethics & the Health Care System
• SHS 3 Advanced Seminars in the Medical Humanities & Social Sciences
• SHS 4 Intensive Integration: RICE and Population Health
• Integration of QI/PS/Pop Health into CBLC and HISC
• Behavior Sciences Coil
• SHS 5 Advanced Practice Seminar: Larger Systems (insurance, policy, government)
• Individualization Phase Scholarly Concentrations in Humanities and Social Sciences

SOCIAL AND HEALTH SYSTEMS 1

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Social and Cultural Factors that influence health, illness, and treatment of populations and individuals (SDOH)

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Health Care Equity and Disparity, and deepening mastery of gender, race/ethnicity and class as social causal influences of illness and as factors in clinical care

Social Identities and Categories of Difference: Chronic illness and disability, sexualities, gender identity/expression

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Histories of medicine, illness, and knowledge of the body

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Ethics: principles and application of clinical and research bioethics

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Health Care Policy: what it is, how it works, costs and the political economy of health care, resource allocation and equity issues, translations to clinical practice; cultures of biomedicine

Physicians as Citizens and Advocates: Local and Global Health, Population health

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Dr/Pt and Dr/Family relationships in context

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SOCIAL AND HEALTH SYSTEMS 2

• American Struggle for Health Care Reform
• Experiences of Deviance, Disability and Chronic Illness
• The Revenge of the Sick: History of Medicine from the Patient’s Point of View
• Health and Human Rights
• Anticipating Personalized Genomic Medicine
• History and Ethics of Human and Animal Experimentation

• Death and Dying in America
• Pharmaceuticals, Politics, & Culture
• The Ethics and Politics of Clinical Research
• Global Health and Medical Ethics
• Writing Narrative Medicine
• How Social Forces Shape the Facts of Biomedical Science

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SHS 3: SEMINARS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

SHS 4:�RICE=Critical Reflection, Inter-professional Education (IPE), Advanced Communication Skills and Ethics

STUDENTS ARE DOING CLINICAL ROTATIONS

TEAM TAUGHT:

CLINICIAN+SOCIAL MEDICINE/PASTORAL STAFF/MLC faculty

PEDS/PSYCH/FAM MED/MED

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REFLECTIVE WRITING: CRITICAL INCIDENTS, ETHICS ISSUES, RACE/GENDER/CLASS 55 WORD STORIES, 22 WORD POETRY, LONGER NARRATIVES

I DON’T HAVE TIME TO READ!

ON THE HORIZON: VOCABULARIES, LOCATIONS, AND PEDAGOGY

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ANTI-RACISM

SOCIAL JUSTICE

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION

LEADERSHIP

INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES

MEDICINE, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE

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MED SCHOOL CURRICULUM

Social Medicine