University of Massachusetts Medical School
Community Health Clerkship/Pharmaceutical Policy and Politics in Massachusetts- 2004
Health Policy and Politics in Massachusetts
The Community Medicine and Public Health Clerkship is a course sponsored by the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health for first year medical students and focuses on population or community issues. Within the program, students may choose one of approximately twenty small groups, each of which has a specific focus. After selecting a topic within the small group, an intensive two-week period begins where the topic is examined and the learning experience culminates in a poster presentation for student review and faculty evaluation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Student participants will interview key policy makers in the executive and legislative branches of government, consumers and providers of relevant health care services. The study includes basic readings in health care economics, health reform strategies, and health policy, as well as group discussion and significant fieldwork, primarily in the Boston area.