Current Underserved Pathway Students

Doctors for America (DFA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that organizes and trains doctors and medical students to be leaders in health advocacy. DFA sponsors and coordinates the Copello Health Advocacy Fellowship, which is open to medical students, residents, and attendings free of charge.

Epidemics of Injustice: University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health is an annual course (free and open to the public) that provides public health leaders and community members with tools to address structural determinants of health.

National Rural Health Association (NRHA):

• Profiles of Rural Medical Educators: Conversations with our nation’s experts on reversing rural physician shortages by Emily Onello, MD
• NRHA Rural Health Students Group

ACEs Aware Learning Center: self-paced trainings to learn about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), their effects on health over a lifetime, and how to screen for them.

Healthcare for Humans podcast is dedicated to educating clinicians on how to care for culturally diverse communities

Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations, 2e: Complete textbook on Access Medicine (UW NetID required)

Northwest Regional Primary Care Association:

• Free Learning Vault with videos and more

UW Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education Research and Practice (CHSIE)

American Indians, Alaska Natives, and related:

• Indian Health Service: for providers
• National Indian Health Board: current public health projects
• Urban Indian Health Institute: initiatives and research

Immigrants, refugees, and related:

• American College of Physicians: toolkit for clinicians caring for refugees, asylees, and non-detained asylum seekers living in the US
• EthnoMed by Harborview Medical Center: medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups
  • EthnoMed’s community calendar (related webinars, workshops, conferences, etc.
• Refugee Reproductive Health Network: to integrate refugee women’s health issues into research and programs

HIV:

• HIV Vaccine Trials Network research scholar grants: for URiM students

Incarcerated people:

• ARRWIP: advocacy and research on reproductive wellness of incarcerated people
• National Commission on Correctional Health Care: education and conferences

LGBTQIA+ people:

• Q-Med at UWSOM: the queer medical student organization at UWSOM
• The Fenway Institute: to optimize health and well-being for sexual and gender minorities
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health: Standards of Care Version 8

People with disabilities:

• CLIMEcast Anti-Ableism and Disability Allyship In Medical Education podcast series
• Docs with Disabilities: to build more inclusive educational environments for trainees with disabilities and increase representation of disabled clinicians and scientists in the biomedical workforce
  
• Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) programs: to support the IDD and ASD community in Washington

Substance use disorders:

• American Society of Addiction Medicine: resources and tools
• Providers Clinical Support System (PCSS): resources for training materials and educational resources for primary care providers who wish to treat opioid use disorder (OUD)