UC Irvine trains ‘physician-activists’ to work with Latino community

A medical residency program at the University of California Irvine is training students to become “physician-activists” to combat “social determinants” in the Latino community.

However, some medical and legal experts expressed concerns about the public university program “politiciz[ing]” medicine.

The mission of the five-year UCI Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community, or PRIME-LC, is to “create leaders and physician-activists who will work in underserved Latino communities” to close the “healthcare gap,” according to its website.

Medical students participating in the program take courses in Chicano-Latino studies that examine “social determinants,” including the influence of “history, culture, family dynamics, and spirituality” on health and illness that are “always present” in healthcare.

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