Lessons learned from implementing health systems science and community service course for fourth-year medical students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the call to integrate health systems science (HSS) in medical education curriculum comes the need for more practical guidance from implementation experiences. In June 2020, the University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine implemented a required course entitled "Health Systems Science and Community Service (HSS)" for fourth-year medical students. This quality improvement study describes the course and the lessons learned in the first four iterations.

Methods

The course was formatted as a 10-month-long, asynchronous course that ran concurrently with post-clerkship rotations. Throughout the four iterations, we used close- and open-ended questions to systematically collect students' feedback twice annually. Descriptive analysis of quantitative

SUBMITTER: Siddiqui SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12001676 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature