JCON 715WE Medical Education with the Wy’East Post-Bac Program (3-week)

Credits: 3
This course is designed for 3rd or 4th year medical students that are interested in becoming medical educators. Medical students taking this elective will be working with students in the Wy’East post baccalaureate program, a Northwest Native American Center of Excellence grant funded program. Wy’East is a structured program designed to assist students from Native American backgrounds who have been unsuccessful in gaining admission to any US medical school. The goal of the program is to better prepare the Wy’East participants for the challenges of medical school. Through this elective, medical students will be mentored on what it takes to become medical educators, as well as complete new faculty modules created by the Teaching and Learning Center at OHSU. Medical students will be expected to design and lead didactic small group sessions on foundation science and community health curriculum for the Wy’East students. These sessions will be evaluated and the medical students will receive timely feedback in order to reflect and make necessary changes for the following week. Medical students will receive mentorship and leadership from faculty from the following areas; foundational sciences, family medicine, community health, and teaching and learning.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit