Fulfill your III requirement as part of a R/UOP experience

Students can complete their SOM Independent Investigative Inquiry Option 3 (III-3) by integrating a community medicine project into their R/UOP experience.

Students will use a community-centered approach to asses their community's need, identify a health issue and implement a solution. The curriculum is challenging and fast paced.

A required orientation workshop is held on each first year campus for all R/UOP and III-3 students before going to the field.
All assignments are completed independently and uploaded to III-3 faculty via the internet.

• Students do not identify a project until they arrive on site.
• Students complete a two-part community assessment both before and after arriving on site.
• With community input, each student identifies a public health problem and develops an intervention project using the Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) method.
• Each student has a III-3 faculty mentor to guide them through the process. They access each other through a special web interface.
• Students submit journals about their learning experiences via the internet and III-3 faculty mentor respond.
• Students develop an academic poster of their work and present it at the Annual Medical Student Poster Session on the UW campus in the fall.

  Apply by completing a R/UOP Application and checking YES to the III-3 box. Application are accepted from 12/15/08-1/30/09 for the following summer.

  See III-3 Assignments for more specific information.

  • III-3 Assignments
  • Electronic Submissions

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