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What is Social Medicine?
This is a question we hear all the time from students. This site has been created by faculty at the Department of Social and Family Medicine at AECOM to answer that question. The Social Medicine Portal...
View ArticleSocial Medicine Building Bridges @ the APHA Annual Meeting 10/27/2008
The theme of the 2008 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) is “Public Health without Borders.” We are very pleased that the APHA Medical Care Section has chosen to sponsor a...
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Social Medicine and Public Health: Webcast from the Clinical Directors Network
On March 11th, 2009 I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Victor Sidel in a webcast at the Clinical Directors Network. Our topic was Social Medicine: Bridging Primary Care and Public Health and...
View ArticleResearch Based Health Activism 2009 – Medical Student Elective
Research-based health activism describes a growing sector of the medical and public health worlds where the classic skills of clinical research and epidemiology are combined with grass-roots advocacy...
View ArticleReminder: Social Medicine Course in Northern Uganda – Applications Due June 30th
SocMed invites students to apply for the fourth annual course Beyond the Biologic Basis of Disease: The Social and Economic Causation of Illness, a social medicine immersion experience conducted...
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Cuba Leads the World in Lowest Patient per Doctor Ratio; How do they do it?
by Joanna Mae Souers *Paraguayan 5th year student participating in primary care in Havana, Cuba. (2011,by Joanna Mae Souers) In early 2007, I began studying medicine at the Latin American School of...
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2014 Einstein Student Run Social Medicine Course
The Social Medicine Course at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine was founded by a group of 8 students in 1998 and is now in its 17th year. It remains entirely student-run. Course schedules going...
View ArticleSocial Medicine Course (in Spanish)
Our colleagues in the Latin American Association of Social Medicine (ALAMES) have organized a distance learning course on Social Medicine. Many of the classes are taught by leaders of Latin American...
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