As an example of UChicago Medicine’s community engagement, the Graduate Medical Education Community Champions program works with the Urban Health Initiative to train residents to work in underserved communities, providing them with outreach, service and learning opportunities.
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has presented the 2024 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement to the University of Chicago Medicine health system and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
The prestigious national award is given annually to an AAMC-member medical school or teaching hospital with a sustaining, major institutional commitment to identify and address the community’s needs through engagement, partnership and collaboration.
“By embedding community engagement into every aspect of medical education, research, and clinical care, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and UChicago Medicine have demonstrated profound commitments to improving the health and well-being of all individuals who call the South Side of Chicago …