Program Overview
Enhancing Representation to Improve our Community’s Health (EnRICH) is a mentorship program for medical students who are interested in family medicine and primary care who:
- Have demonstrated accomplishment or shown interest in health disparities, social justice, or similar work with plans to continue during medical school
- Have overcome personal or family hardship and/or significant barriers to achieve higher education
The mission of EnRICH is to provide mentorship and experiences in primary care to students in order to increase the number of physicians who represent our diverse patient populations and improve the health of the community.
EnRICH is open to all levels of medical students. EnRICH students are matched with a longitudinal family medicine faculty or resident physician mentor and will have the following opportunities through the program:
- Career mentorship: Students will have one-on-one mentor meetings, be able attend workshops and networking events, and have support to attend conferences.
- Clinical experience: Students will gain family medicine clinical experience by working with their mentors in clinic.
- Community health opportunities: Students will be able to participate in local community health work.
Resources
EnRICH leadership team (L-R): Estefan Beltran, MD; Patricia Tellez-Giron, MD; Morgan White, MD; Thomas Hahn, MD; Amanda Kennan.
Contact Us
Program Leadership
Estefan Beltran, MD
Thomas Hahn, MD
Patricia Tellez-Giron, MD
Morgan White, MD
Program Coordinator
Nicole Watson
Program Email
enrich@fammed.wisc.edu
Please reach out to any of the above contacts if you are interested in learning more about EnRICH!