National Underserved Scholars (NUS)
National Underserved Scholars (NUS)
National Underserved Scholars (NUS)
National Underserved Scholars (NUS)
National Underserved Scholars (NUS)
National Underserved Scholars (NUS)
Colorado AHEC National Underserved Scholars (NUS) is a cohort‑based experience for University of Colorado School of Medicine students committed to advancing health equity in rural and urban underserved settings across Colorado. Learn from mentors, serve in the community, and build your professional path.
About the Program
Like the Colorado AHEC Scholars program, the Colorado AHEC National Underserved Scholars (NUS) course was developed to address a need in the University of Colorado medical school curriculum to allow students to develop skills and knowledge about providing care to underserved communities.
It is a two-year interdisciplinary education and training program that supplements students' existing health program training and exposes them to underserved populations in urban, rural, and frontier communities.
This course combines asynchronous didactic lectures from national experts who address SDoH with learning modules to provide first-hand insight into health disparity.
The Three main components of the curriculum include:
Didactics
NUS will learn about serving underserved communities via national expert guest lecturers and assigned pre and intersession assignments or modules. There will be two sessions for each topic, alternating between asynchronous study and synchronous meetings.
Experiential and Clinical
NUS will sign up for clinical rotations in underserved or rural/frontier clinics or hospitals. One rotation will be in the 3rd year, spring/summer semester, and the other rotation will be in the 4th year before April.
The hours logged will be 40 hours in this experience by August of the summer semester of the third year and by April of the spring semester of the 4th year.
Community Service
NUS will give back to the Aurora community and get first-hand experience of how the social determinants of health impact healthcare. A Food Fleet is in the making, as are NUS Community Gardens and Food Network.