A Graduate Medical Orientation Intervention Focused on Local Health Inequities

ABSTRACT:

Background

Residents must understand the social drivers of health in the communities they serve to deliver quality care. While resident orientation provides an opportunity to introduce residents to social and structural drivers of health, inequity, and care delivery relevant to the patient population in their new communities, many graduate medical education orientation curricula do not include this content.

Objective

To report the development and implementation of a novel, patient-centered health equity orientation curriculum, including initial feasibility and acceptability data as well as preliminary self-reported outcomes.

Methods

The curriculum was developed by academic faculty in collaboration with institutional and local health equity champions. Content cent

SUBMITTER: Caldarelli E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10449351 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature