INMD 7019

Health Policy and Advocacy Elective

Contact

Juliana Milhofer, JD
Course Director/Coordinator
JMilhofer@mnmed.org

Campus
Curriculum Focus
Clinical Level
Requirement
MS Year
Hands-On
Terms Offered
Credits
Prerequisites

Completion of all MS3 core clerkships

Details

Catalog description:  The four-week course will be offered as an elective for fourth year medical students during the Minnesota legislative session. Students will be able to participate in the legislative process, engage with community stakeholders, and interact with MMA staff via remote communications, as well as via a visit to the Minnesota State Capitol. This course will offer students a hands-on opportunity to learn more about health policy and advocacy, and how the Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) functions as a unified voice of physicians for advancing the practice of medicine, the profession and patient health.

This course will provide medical students with experience in the following areas:

  • Physician involvement in health policy
  • Legislative process and state/regulatory policy development
  • Role of the courts and federal policy development
  • Grassroots advocacy

Health policy is a topic medical students are increasingly passionate about. Exposure to the various components of health policy is needed in order to fully understand how health policy affects physicians and their patients.  To accomplish this goal, students will write and present a health policy issue brief/research memo to MMA staff, engage with policy makers and community stakeholders, gain an understanding of the various advocacy tools available, and at the end of the rotation, students will complete a reflection piece on what they have learned about the health policy process.

Sites:  

Site Code

Site Name

Notes

UM-1000

Unspecified Site for Academic/Research Purposes

Primary site will likely be the MMA office space; this should be finalized by fall 2022. 

Required session attendance: Day 1 9am Introduction and Orientation at which point remaining required session attendances will be determined

Typical weekly schedule/Delivery mode:  8-4, M-F

Direct patient care:  No

Consent requirement: Open to student scheduling

Grading scale:  P/N

Allow repetition of course: Repetition not allowed

Course equivalency:  Does not apply