A mapping process for identifying and enhancing public health education in required medical student clerkships

Abstract

This is one of six short papers that describe additional innovations to help integrate public health into medical education; these were featured in the "Patients and Populations: Public Health in Medical Education" conference. They represent relatively new endeavors or curricular components that had not been explored in prior publications. Although evaluation data are lacking, it was felt that sharing a description of the mapping process for linking public health competencies to clinical clerkship activities at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health would be of value to medical educators.