Social Determinants of Health Curriculum Integrated Into a Core Emergency Medicine Clerkship.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Demand that health centers address health inequities has led medical schools to emphasize social determinants of health (SDH). The Emergency Department often serves as first (or sole) point of health care access, making it an ideal environment in which to identify/explore SDH. Yet there are few SDH curricula targeting core emergency medicine (EM) clerkships. We describe implementation and outcomes of a three-part SDH curriculum instituted in a 4-week EM clerkship.

Methods

We created a longitudinal curriculum aimed at fourth-year medical students in their EM clerkship. Students interviewed patients to discuss social and other influences on their health care and wrote reflections. After this, they discussed their individual cases in small groups, selected one pati

SUBMITTER: Moffett SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6354789 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature