Mission Statement

Our mission is to help train medical students interested in serving medically underserved populations in urban settings.

Throughout UHS member's education, students are encouraged to become competent practitioners, researchers, and public advocates for underserved urban populations. In order to accomplish this goal, UHS aspires to graduate medical students who are scholars in the following areas.

  1. Cultural Competency: We encourage students pursue further education in understanding cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic factors that affect underserved patients access to health care and health care outcomes in urban areas.
  2. Service & Outreach: UHS is currently hoping to partner with Central High School in Manchester, NH. The focus of the program is health education for youth. UHS students are encouraged to participate in the Manchester program, but are not required to do so. Students are strongly encouraged to partake in some service project in an urban area throughout the year.
  3. Continued Education: We support our students to continue their education both through formal and informal studies in their pursuit to serve urban populations.
  4. Clinical Medicine: UHS is working to develop clinical opportunities in urban areas, in particular in Manchester, NH.

Through this program we will become Urban Health Scholars, having an improved understanding of the needs of diverse urban populations and educated to improve their overall state of health.