Robert Rock
Creator and Coordinator, Making the Invisible Visible Art, Identity, & Hierarchies of Power @Yale School Of Medicine
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WORK HISTORY
Creator and Coordinator, Making the Invisible Visible Art, Identity, & Hierarchies of Power @Yale School Of Medicine
New Haven, CT, US
Designed guided art tour and reflection session for the first Master Course of entering medical students studying the expression of bias implicit to western culture and its effect on patient-provider interaction using the collections at the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. The tour has been incorporated in the graduate medical education within the categorical internal medicine residency program as well as the national clinician scholars program.
EDUCATION
Yale School of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
New York University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Art History
ABOUT ROBERT ROCK
Dr. Robert Rock is a child of the humanities, passionate about building community, fighting for health justice, and reforming health professional education. He is currently a fellow within the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale University. Dr. Rock matriculated into New York University through the Higher Education Opportunities Program (HEOP), which supports traditionally underserved and financially disadvantaged New York State students in entering and graduating from private four-year colleges. As an undergraduate, he co-founded the Opportunity Programs Mentoring Initiative within HEOP which served to re-energize the sense of community among students and alumni. Robert graduated cum laude from New York University (NYU) with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History. He graduated from the Yale School of Medicine where he co-developed US Health Justice (USHJ), an elective course for medical, nursing, and physician associate students dedicated to social medicine, domestic health equity, and health advocacy. Within USHJ, Robert co-developed a workshop called Making the Invisible Visible (MIV) that was subsequently incorporated into the mandatory curriculum for all Yale medical students. MIV uses art observation to explore topics of bias, identity, and hierarchies of power in patient-provider interactions. Dr. Rock went on to work with graduate students from across the university to develop the multidisciplinary USHJ Collaborative, which works to educate and strengthen the growing health justice community, campus-wide. Dr. Rock is currently working with a group of residents and junior faculty of color in revamping the first-year social medicine immersion month curriculum at the Residency Program for Social Medicine at Montefiore. Dr. Rock has been named a 2017 Pisacano Scholar, the 2020 Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Rising Star for Excellence in Social Mission in Health Professions Education, and a 2020 National Minority Quality Forum top 40 under 40 leader in minority health, and has had a student activism award named after him and a colleague at the Yale School of Medicine.
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