2016

Incoming medical students receive crash course in health disparities

Orientation program focuses on caring for underprivileged patients

With no dabbling, first-year students at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis plunged into the realities of health-care disparities during a four-day orientation in August.

The 124 students analyzed life expectancy and health disparities, such as gun violence rates by St. Louis ZIP codes, discovering an inordinate pattern of death and debilitation among the area’s poorest residents in segregated nonwhite neighborhoods.

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