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Creating Capacity in Community Engagement Medical Education is a new course for first/second-year medical students with an interest in both community health and medical education. In a small group, faculty-facilitated setting, students will design and develop the foundational structure for a new scholarly application in the area of health equity and community engagement leadership. Additionally, students will work collaboratively with community engagement, public health, and diversity, equity, inclusion faculty members to create a new health equity and community engagement leadership course to be launched in Spring 2021. Activities will include reviewing other similar courses at peer medical schools, assessing medical education needs around these topic areas from peers, creating a syllabus and identifying key content areas, designing interactive small-group activities, and inviting health equity and community engagement practitioner guest speakers. Instructor/s permission is required. Prerequisite: INDE 201: Practice of Medicine I.