The Community Health Advocacy Initiative: A Longitudinal Experiential Curriculum in Community Engagement for Preclerkship Medical Students.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Community partnership is a key strategy for addressing the social determinants of health and achieving health equity. There are few examples of curricula for undergraduate medical education that teach all, rather than self-selected, medical students to collaborate with community members to improve health. We describe the design and implementation of the Community Health Advocacy Initiative (CHAI) curriculum, a new yearlong educational program for medical students at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Methods

CHAI aimed to fill the curricular gap in social determinants of health education by providing medical students with the knowledge and skills to improve the health of patients through collaborations with community partners. This longitudin

SUBMITTER: Anselin E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11219123 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature