Welcome to John Sealy SOM Educational Affairs
Areas of Scholarly Concentration
- Aerospace Medicine
The Aerospace Medicine Concentration is designed to educate medical students about Aerospace Medicine and space biomedical research. Students are introduced to aerospace physiology, space medicine and space life sciences research, an introductory
course in aerospace medicine, and career opportunities. For more information, please contact Heather Peel
.
- Bilingual Health
The Bilingual Health
Scholarly Concentration is designed to graduate culturally and ethically competent bilingual in Spanish physicians. For more information, please contact Norma A. Perez Raifaisen, MD, DrPH
.
- Community Engagement
The Community Engagement Scholarly Concentration combines key aspects of the Global Health, Public Health, and Rural Health Scholarly Concentrations to enable students to participate in well-rounded, longitudinal, mentored scholarship
in a variety of settings, both domestically and abroad. Please contact Bradley Brock
for more information.
- Global Health
The Global Health
Scholarly Concentration is the home to many global health training opportunities at UTMB. Various training opportunities are open to students in all four of our academic schools. Please contact Dr. Matthew Dacso
or Bradley Brock
for
more information.
- Geriatric Health
The Geriatric Scholarly Concentration at UTMB is a four year learning experience that provides a unique opportunity to enhance knowledge, skill sets, values and expertise in the care of older adults. Please contact Dr.
Vinod Kaushik
or Leslie Simpton
for more information.
- Public Health
The Public Health Scholarly Concentration provides medical students interested in public health careers or concerned about public health issues with focused training in public health research and practice skills within the four-year Integrated Medical Curriculum. Please contact Denny Fe Agana-Norman, PhD, MPH, CPH
or Arielle Bennett
for more information.
- Physician Healer
The Physician Healer Scholarly Concentration is designed to mentor students as they
develop their professional identity as doctors. The training focuses on
self-awareness, self-reflection, interpersonal communication skills,
self-care and work-life balance. Being a source of healing for the
suffering of another is both a responsibility and a privilege. In
addition to our technical knowledge and skills, being a healer requires
training in equanimity, wisdom and compassion. Please email Pht@utmb.edu
for more information
- Rural Health
UTMB medical students that have an interest in working in a rural area
will benefit by joining the Rural Health Scholarly Concentration. The Rural
Health Scholarly Concentration provides opportunities that serve to expand
existing curricular experiences that emphasize the practice of rural
medicine throughout the 4 years of medical school. Please contact Dr. Oscar W. Brown
or Brian Sullivan
for more information.
- Translational Research
Translational research integrates basic research, patient-oriented
research, and population-based research and leads to the transformation
of scientific discoveries made in the laboratory, clinical setting, or
population setting to clinical applications such as interventions to
prevent, diagnose, or treat disease. Please contact Dr. Judith Aronson
or Donna Adams
for more information.
Purpose of the areas of Scholarly Concentration:
To provide interested students opportunities to receive expanded learning experiences in non-specialty-based areas of emphasis while completing the 4-year Integrated
Medical Curriculum.