Integrated Clinical Experience: Health in Community (ICE:HC)
The Health in Community (HC) curriculum is a flexible two-year initiative embedded within the Integrated Clinical Experience (ICE) of the Foundations Curriculum (FC). This program offers a dynamic and student-driven approach to community-engaged learning, integrating academic, professional, and community-based experiences across the first two years of medical school.
The HC Community Engaged Experiences (CEE) program encourages students to explore key questions:
●What is community?
●Where is community?
●Why are some people healthier than others? (How do you approach care for populations that face inequities?)
Key Features:
●Integrated and Flexible Design: Combines pre-departure training, tutorials, and placements, allowing students to explore community health in diverse settings and at their own pace.
●Diverse Engagement Opportunities: Students participate in a blend of longitudinal and flexible placements, ranging from work with single agencies to experiences in long-term care (LTC) and intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
●Focus on Critical Skills: Develops advocacy, interprofessional collaboration, and an understanding of social determinants of health through reflective practice and direct engagement.
