Table 2.

Lecture Schedule for the Community Health Improvement Clerkship at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

Format	Title	Description
Day 1
Lecture	Introduction	Learning objectives, clerkship requirements, examples, community partners, and current opportunities
Lectures	Community health models	Role and essential elements of community health programs and population-based medicine
Lecture	Chronic care model	Chronic care model of preventive medicine
Day 2
Lectures	Health disparities and cultural determinants of health	Impact of culturally-determined factors at the personal, provider, health-care system, and societal levels exemplified by specific cases
Lecture	Emergency preparedness	Short-term and long-term impact of local community health crises
Presentations	Partnership-building	Local, regional, and national partnership-based programs and opportunities, from American Cancer Society and American Heart Association
Day 3
Lecture	Community health assessment	Historical and current methods of surveillance data in identifying the prevalence and impact of community-level health issues
Workshop	Advocacy and policy change	Mock legislative lobbying effort to impact public health policy, with legislators and public health officials role- playing policy-makers
Workshop	Program evaluation	Needs assessments, formative evaluation, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, and impact evaluation concepts tailored to specific student projects