Certificate programs at Wake Forest University School of Medicine allow students to personalize their educational experience, develop special interests, and demonstrate outstanding motivation to residency selection committees.
Wake Forest offers a wide range of Certificate program options and specialties. These programs allow students to research and expand upon the topics they are interested in. The key difference is that each Certificate requires a Capstone project, which students will complete at the end of the experience. This culminating project will review all the information you have learned throughout the program and allow students to apply their knowledge.
Certificate and Scholar Programs
Offering Wake Forest medical students an opportunity to engage in highly innovative instruction of special interest to many residency-training programs.
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Active Resilience Training
The ART in Medicine curriculum seeks to measure baseline resilience and coping strategies, provide curriculum to address key pillars of psychological and physical resilience, and track metrics overtime to hone the program.
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Advanced Training in Gender and Sexual Minority Health Care
The Advanced Training in Gender and Sexual Minority Health Care Certificate program is a series of seminars, lectures, and special electives that encompass a robust foundation of subject matter and conclude in a capstone project.
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Advanced Ultrasound
Providing instruction in advanced ultrasound techniques and knowledge to positively impact health outcomes.
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Culinary Medicine Certificate Program
Through integration of current research, service, and hands-on training, the Culinary Medicine Certificate will give participants the tools and knowledge to improve patient care and use a patient-centered approach to inform participants of strategies to counsel patients on nutrition and diet.
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Global Health Certificate Program
The Global Health certificate program is a linked series of seminars and projects that constitutes a coherent body of study and culminates in a scholarly or capstone project.
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Health Equity Certificate
The Health Equity Certificate program has been designed to provide health equity education and training opportunities to medical students, graduate students, and medical residents who are part of Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
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Health Justice Advocacy Certificate
The Health Justice Advocacy Certificate curriculum seeks to expose medical students to a broad range of health issues as well as the sociocultural determinants of health.
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Integrative Medicine Certificate
To increase awareness and education about the integrative medicine approach and modalities so that the learner can be knowledgeable in patient counseling and appropriate referrals regarding these topics.
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MAESTRO
MAESTRO Certificate Program aims to equip medical students with the necessary cultural awareness and communication skills to care effectively for Spanish-speaking patients.
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Medical Education Certificate Program for Health Professions Students (MECP)
The Medical Education Certificate Program for Health Professions Students curriculum seeks to improve students’ knowledge of the science of learning in order to improve their performance as educators.
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Mindful Medicine
The Mindful Medicine curriculum seeks to expose learners to empirically supported mindfulness-based skills that can be integrated immediately into their daily lives.
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Service Learning Scholars
The Service Learning Scholars curriculum seeks to foster long-term, sustainable, and developmental volunteer opportunities for our students to build relationships and improve the health and lives of people in our community.
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Wilderness Medicine Certificate Program
Offering a longitudinal experience to MS1 to MS4 students to provide an introduction to wilderness and austere medical care.
Scholar Programs
The benefits of a Scholar program are similar to those offered by a Certificate program because they also provide an opportunity to personalize a student's educational experience, develop special interests, and demonstrate outstanding motivation to residency selection committees. However, Scholar programs are more specialty-specific and cover a more narrow-focused set of topics. In addition, a Capstone project is not required for any Scholar programs.
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Cost Conscious Care Scholar Program
Helping to cultivate a more equitable and affordable health system by training medical students to present financial realities in an informational and empowering way.
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Financial Literacy and Resilience Education (FLARE)
Offering instruction to fourth-year medical students in an array of personal finance and practice management topics to enhance career satisfaction and reduce the risk of career burnout.
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Spectrum of Pain and Addiction Certificate Program
The Spectrum of Pain and Addiction Certificate Program curriculum seeks to provide students with the opportunity to explore a holistic view of care.
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Teaching, Learning; Developing Recall (TL: DR)
The Teaching, Learning; Developing Recall (TL: DR) curriculum seeks to develop competency in the anatomy curriculum, as well as in peer-directed education and mentorship.
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Health Insurance Scholar Program
Health Insurance Scholar Program is to educate our peers about the mechanics, impacts, and limitations of health insurance, as well as how to best care for our patients in this context, and how to protect ourselves as future healthcare providers.
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Preserving Quality and Meaning in Life Scholars Program
This program provides opportunities to explore Hospice and Palliative Care medical specialties, learn about communication with patients and families in end-of-life care, and develop coping mechanisms and strategies for processing grief/bereavement both personally and professionally.
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Ophthalmology Curriculum Certificate Program
Increase awareness and education in the field of ophthalmology and to expose students to the various subspecialties in ophthalmology through ophthalmology-related community service and online learning.
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Radiology Scholars Certificate Program
The Radiology Scholars Certificate Program curriculum seeks to augment the preclinical medical school curriculum at the Wake Forest School of Medicine.