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A strategic workshop to transform training globally.

Friday, October 30, 2015
8:00am - 5:00pm
Billings Hospital
860 E 59th Street | Room H-300

About the Workshop

Health professionals regularly witness social and economic forces impacting the lives of patients and communities but have limited knowledge and experience with how to respond. This inadequacy stems, in part, from the absence of routine training on the social determinants of health and human rights in professional training. Most training is biomedical, with little focus on the psycho-social aspects of health and health care.

While there have been increased calls for the incorporation of such content into health professional training to prepare “Health Professionals for a New Century” (Frenk et al. The Lancet 376.9756 (2010): 1923-958), there has been little consensus on how to meaningfully implement such training into already crowded curricula, determine the most impactful methods for such training, and conduct survey and evaluation of existing models.

Thus, this workshop will convene a group of thought-leaders currently teaching social medicine and human rights in order to identify best practices and develop a strategy for developing training all health professional students.

Workshop Goals

Build knowledge on the current content and pedagogy of existing models of social medicine and human rights education.

Identify the essential components of and key barriers to successful implementation of social medicine and human rights training.

Gain familiarity with the principles and practice of movement building and their applicability to social medicine and human rights education.

Establish a framework for an outline of a white paper on best practices in social medicine and human rights education.

Strengthen the network of individuals, communities, and organizations committed to social medicine and human rights education

Agenda: Friday, October 30th,  2015

8:00am – 12noon | Models of Social Medicine and Human Rights Education in Medical Education

Presentation of Literature Review

SocMed, EqualHealth and SOCOMED at PIH|IMB Content and Pedagogy

Other models (Haiti, Rwanda)

12noon - 1:00pm | LUNCH (provided)

1:00pm - 5:00pm | Movement Building and Strategies for Change

1:00 - 2:00pm | Building a Movement: Why and What it Takes (Amy Finnegan)

2:00 - 4:00pm | Engagement with existing movement

4:00 - 5:00pm | Debrief and Discussion: what does this mean for us?

Participating Organizations and Institutions

University of Chicago Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

EqualHealth

SocMed

Partners in Health/Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine

Partners In Health | Inshuti Mu Buzima, Rwanda

University of Rwanda, Discipline of Primary Health Care

Beyond Flexner

Participant RSVP and Live-Stream
This workshop is intended for health professionals but free and open to the public. We encourage RSVPs by Wednesday, October 28 to help us plan for materials and refresments. 

We will also be streaming the entire workshop using the WebEx platform. Anyone who is interested in participating at a distance via web interface should provide a working email account with your RSVP.  With this, we will send you an email invitation to login and participate via WebEx.