Residency Education Enhancement

The Center for Community Health & Prevention has an integral role in the URMC’s Engagement and Enhancement efforts to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity for their best health. This includes creating a learning environment that embraces a wide range of perspectives and ideas, enhances learning, and encourages critical thinking, to teach about the underlying drivers of health including social, political, and structural differences between populations.

Theresa Green, PhD, MBA, director of Community Health Education and Policy, leads the URMC Council for Health Education Enhancement (CHEE) that works to help educational programs across the institution address competencies for learners in the areas of health equity, systems change, empathetic care of patients and quality improvement. To learn more about the origins of this work, read the Equity in Medical Education update. 

Several residency programs at the University of Rochester have done exceptional work through this process of curriculum enhancement. 

Examples include:

Residency programs at the URMC have engaged in the URMC KEE (Knowledge, Empathy, Equity) Curriculum Framework for Health Education Enhancement. 

There were two underlying principles guiding the work:

• Establish and track STANDARD health equity components across the institution (based on national competencies)
• Support FLEXIBILITY of each program to teach in a way that will be most effective and impactful for their learners

Interested in enhancing your education program? Please contact Dr. Theresa Green.