A Systematic Review of Advocacy Curricula in Graduate Medical Education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Professionalism standards encourage physicians to participate in public advocacy on behalf of societal health and well-being. While the number of publications of advocacy curricula for GME-level trainees has increased, there has been no formal effort to catalog them.

Objective

To systematically review the existing literature on curricula for teaching advocacy to GME-level trainees and synthesize the results to provide a resource for programs interested in developing advocacy curricula.

Methods

A systematic literature review was conducted to identify articles published in English that describe advocacy curricula for graduate medical education trainees in the USA and Canada current to September 2017. Two reviewers independently screened titles, abstracts, and

SUBMITTER: Howell BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6848624 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature