Internal Medicine

Discovery Year

Department of Medicine Health Services Scholars

The Health Services Research faculty in the Department of Medicine offer to host up to 10 students per year who are interested a Discovery Year to address health systems change. This experience will focus on a wide range of themes related to systems change, including:

  • Social determinants of health and communities
  • Systems improvement within public health and health care organizations
  • Global health including climate change and disaster preparedness
  • Quality of care
  • Health equity, health disparities and structural racism

Students will partner with a faculty mentor and a community advisor in designing a Discovery Project, which the students will lead. The HSR faculty will provide regular seminars to provide students basic skills that complement their hands-on Discovery project.  Students are expected to be first author on at least one manuscript summarizing their project findings and submit it to a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

DGSOM Discovery Year Curriculum Description(Link is external) 

Faculty Mentors

Learn more about faculty and their research interests here.(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)

For further information, please contact the program directors, Drs. Carol Mangione(Link sends email) and Mitchell Wong(Link sends email).