Social medicine is the practice of seeking to understand the social context of patients and communities and working to re-mediate the impact of these grossly unequal contexts on the life and death of the poor and marginalized. Social medicine aspires to ensure health by drawing on social analysis and community strengths to change the structural forces that determine health disparities.

Our innovative, patient-based, learner-centered program provides comprehensive inpatient and ambulatory medicine training, with focused experience in psychosocial medicine, clinical epidemiology and reasoning, community-oriented primary care, global health, and specialty clinics for patients with inadequate access to care (i.e. new immigrants, recently incarcerated persons, LGBTQ+ and refugees).