Creighton University

    Community –Oriented Primary Care (COPC) mission is to help reduce health disparities affecting our nation’s communities, the mission of the Creighton University medical Center (CUMC) COPC Public Health Research Endownment program is to increase the number of health professional who are committed to addressing health disparities through their research and service in medically underserved communities.  This mission supports the core values of Creighton University-“service to others, the importance of family life, the inalienable worth of each individual, and appreciation of ethnic and cultural diversity.”  It also supports the goals of Healthy People of 2010 to eliminate health disparities.

 

Area of Emphasis 1

Increase student involvement in COPC public health research with particular emphasis on addressing health disparities among medically underserved populations in Nebraska and Iowa.

Establish an endowed summer research program to support three  preclinical medical students in a COPC public health research assistantship during the summer following their first year of medical school to increase the students’ knowledge  of an expose them to health disparities issues. Click here for the Summer Research Appliction (word document).

Establish an endowed community research elective to support two forth-year medical students in a longitudinal COPC public health research experience to increase the students’ knowledge of and expose them to health disparities issues.

Strengthen and expand mentoring and tutoring services to encourage health disparity students to pursue COPC public health research.

Formalize the existing Common Grounds program and establish it as an integrated student/faculty forum for discussing health disparities research in a “shared inquiry” format to increase the students’ knowledge of and expose them to health disparities issues and to increase students’ cultural proficiency skills..

Establish an endowed program for training medical student tutors to increase the academic success rate of medical students.

 

Increase medical school enrollment of health disparity students interested in participating in health disparity research. 

 

Develop an endowed scholarship that will facilitate recruitment of highly qualified health disparity students interested in conducting health disparity research

The Grant will allow us to recruit students committed to conducting research on health disparity.

• The COPC comes from CU’s ongoing effort to bridge the gap in local and national disparities in healthcare and delivery.