The Rush Population Health Equity Fellowship is a two-year, post-residency program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. The fellowship prepares physicians to lead efforts in population health equity through advanced training in education, research, community engagement, advocacy, policy, and clinical innovation.
Program highlights
- Fellows are considered half-time employees, are compensated at the half-time attending salary, and will receive full benefits. Family leave time is available.
- The Fellowship is founded on the pillars of Faculty Development, Community Partnership, Leadership/Team building, Education, Research, and Advocacy.
- An inter-professional faculty—comprised of physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, psychologists, and community leaders—will teach and advise fellows.
- In addition to a core curriculum in health equity, fellows are explicitly taught the skills necessary to work within—and ultimately lead—inter-professional teams, and taught how to themselves be better teachers and advocates of equitable healthcare and public health.
- Multiple teaching opportunities at the medical student, resident, and attending levels are structured into the fellowship.
- Fellows will receive guidance to focus their MPH practical work and research on existing disparities affecting vulnerable populations, and will be supported by faculty to facilitate publications and presentations at the local and national levels.
Clinical work will be situated at Rush University Medical Center, an urban tertiary care hospital or Rush Oak Park Hospital, which offers a community hospital experience.
Rush is the largest employer on Chicago's West Side, channeling its economic power to improve neighborhood vitality and help residents achieve better health.
Fellows are an integral part of the Department of Emergency Medicine's thriving Division of Health Equity or the Department of Internal Medicine's Division of Community and Global Health Equity.
