The Underserved Pathway

The Underserved Pathway supports medical students and residents interested in working with the underserved by providing an array of mentorship, academic and experiential activities.

Our goal is to prepare future providers to work with a variety of underserved populations by providing a foundation in the form of a knowledge base and real-world experiences.

The underserved include individuals and communities that experience barriers in accessing quality healthcare because of contextual factors such as ethnicity, gender, disability, socioeconomic status and life circumstance.

We encourage students to focus their pathway experiences on a specific population or community they are interested in such as the homeless, incarcerated, migrant workers, immigrant populations, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Or, students may decide to focus their pathway experience on general underserved care and/or health policy and advocacy.

The Underserved Pathway works closely with the other School of Medicine pathways: Indian Health Pathway and Global Health Pathway.

Pathway Benefits

1. Focused clinical experience working with the underserved.
2. Guidance and support from an Underserved Pathway mentor.
3. Unique web-based curriculum and knowledge base about the ethics, research and policies that affect the underserved.
4. Certificate of Completion upon Graduation and acknowledgement of pathway involvement in Medical Student Performance Evaluation.

Contacts

Faculty and staff are available to answer your questions about the program: