Hi,
So, I went to a talk that was loosely about social medicine (giving by a really inspirational physician who runs a hospice in DC). One of the underlying points in his talk was the importance of mentoring, and how although many residencies will give you a lot of exposure to the impoverished and medically underserved, being mentored by a person to is really interested in providing care to this population is different than training with people who serve these communities as a matter of circumstance.
"Social Medicine" as a field I think is more established in the UK, and I don't want to get into a pissing contest about socialized medicine. But, there are programs here in the U.S. (Harvard, B&W, Einstein, and I'm sure there are others - some appear to specifically target international opportunities ). It appears to me that you do this training after FP or medicine.
Has anyone here heard about these programs and what the typical sequence of training is? Can one match into a program? At B & W, it looks like you have to do your prelim year there first and then apply.
I haven't found much with google (since this just brings up the individual programs and I can't seem to find any national coalition of academic programs in social medicine training, for instance:
http://www.socialmed.net/ is just Cook County's program, and
http://www.socialmedicine.org/ is Einstein's program
I'm interested in ways that this training may be useful in an academic career.
Once again - thanks for the help, and constructive comments only please - this isn't a trolling thread...