This course will explore the social, economic, cultural, and political determinants of health and how health care professionals work to overcome these challenges. The course will provide participants with the tools to begin to recognize these factors before entering into clinical practice. Sessions will be interactive and provide a space where all perspectives on these issues can be respectfully debated so that participants may begin to understand how to effectively enhance the health of each patient. Concepts discussed will be linked to specific practices in the Salvation Army Clinic.

This is a course for medical students in the first and second year to experience primary care and community medicine research. Under the mentorship and supervision of a qualified faculty member, students will develop specific plans for a research experience. Students will be expected to identify a faculty member and an associated research experience with this member prior to enrollment to this elective course. This experience may involve various aspects of a research experience continuum, such as specific aim and hypotheses generation, study design, literature reviews, implementing interventions, collecting data, data analyses, manuscript preparation, and submission.

This course, taught in conjunction with one of our community-based faculty members, is open to all students with M1/M2 students receiving credit. The class teaches students to have a healthy self-awareness and provides tips/exercises to help reduce stress (both personal and school-related).

This clerkship is designed to provide the student with an intensive clinical experience in family medicine. The rotation will take place offsite from UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital in one of a number of rural Kentucky communities. During the clerkship students will work closely with an experienced family practice preceptor. Please refer to the student affairs/fourth-year course catalogue for current-year goals and objectives.

• Course Director: Jessica Setser, MD
• Course Coordinator: Anna Lee Sims, M.Ed

This clerkship is designed to provide the student with an advanced clinical experience in family medicine. The rotation will take place in the Family Medical Center of the College of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine and at Chandler Hospital. During the clerkship students will function as family medicine interns under the supervision of family medicine faculty and residents. Please refer to the student affairs/fourth-year course catalogue for current-year goals and objectives.

• Course Director: Jessica Setser, MD
• Course Coordinator: Anna Lee Sims, M.Ed

This clerkship is designed to provide the visiting student or senior UK medical student with advanced clinical experience in family medicine. The rotation will take place in the FMC and may involve taking care of patients at various other locations in the community. During the clerkship students will work closely with family medicine faculty and residents.

• Course Director: Jessica Setser, MD
• Course Coordinator: Anna Lee Sims, M.Ed

This is an interdisciplinary elective designed for students interested in primary care and sports medicine. Students completing this clerkship will be exposed to all aspects of sports injuries and illness while working with athletes at the scholastic, collegiate, and professional athletes.

• Course Director: Robert Hosey, MD
• Course Coordinator: Josh Ward, MS

This is a four-week clerkship for students interested in rural medicine. The experience is presently set up to take place in the either the Morehead, Ky. and/or Hazard, Ky. Additional rural locations for this experience are presently under development. 

• Course Directors: Dr. Johnson (Hazard), Dr. Burrows (Morehead) 
• Course Coordinator: Anna Lee Sims, M.Ed

This elective is designed to broaden students’ knowledge about complementary and integrative medicine utilized by their future patients to enhance their health and well-being as well as to effect the body’s own healing mechanisms. Students will also gain a heightened sensitivity to these concepts via numerous experiential, interactive sessions with physicians and other practitioners.

Course Directors: Neena Thomas-Eapen, MD, and Dr. Barnes