Sam W. Ho Health Justice Scholars Program

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Teaching in the Anti-Racist Growth Zone: Lessons from a Clerkship Session on Racism and Microaggressions in the Clinical Setting It can be challenging to effectively teach medical students how to recognize and safely address racism, bias and microaggressions in the clinical setting, especially when most faculty report lack of training, resources, and expertise in this area.

Keith Nokes, MD, MPH
Director HJSP

Dr. Nokes received his MD and MPH degrees from the University of Connecticut and completed residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Rochester (NY) in the program's inner-city track. He completed a four-year National Health Service Corps commitment at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center—a community health center in Lawrence, Massachusetts—where he has continued to practice since 2001. He has served in a number of faculty and leadership roles in Lawrence, including Chief of Family Medicine at Lawrence General Hospital. He currently is Director of Medical Student Education for the health center and a faculty member at the health center-based Lawrence Family Medicine Residency Program, where he directs pediatric training experiences for the residents, precepts residents in the hospital and clinic, and works on a variety of initiatives to address Social Determinants of Health at the health center and in collaboration with the Merrimack Valley Accountable Care Organization. He was a co-founder of the Health Justice Scholars Program (then known as the Tufts Student Service Scholars Program) in 2013, assuming directorship in 2018. In the Spring of 2022 he was appointed as the inaugural H. Jack Geiger, MD, Director in Health Justice at TUSM. His interests include structural competency, social needs screening and intervention, health inequities, and medical student/resident education.

Community engagement and public service have always been key parts of the Tufts SOM curriculum and the HJSP Program. Dr. Adam Normandin (M15, HJSP Faculty), Dr. Keith Nokes (HJSP Director), and HJSP Scholar Zachary Duperry (M24) speak about the opportunities offered at Tufts and with the HJSP program that focus on training physicians to be aware of the impact that physicians can have beyond clinic walls.

Helping Communities in Need While Training Doctors to Treat the Whole Patient The Community Service Learning program through Tisch College of Civic Life and the School of Medicine offers medical students opportunities for hands-on practice in aspects of health care outside clinics.