Social Mission Metrics: Developing a Survey to Guide Health Professions Schools.

ABSTRACT: The social mission, which is focused on advancing social justice and health equity, has gained recognition as an important aspect of health professions education. However, there is currently no established method to measure a school's commitment to these activities. In this Perspective, the authors describe the development of a new tool to measure the social mission at dental, medical, and nursing schools across the United States, and they reflect on the implications of using this tool to deepen discussions around the social mission and strengthen progress toward health equity.From 2016 to 2019, the authors created and field tested the online social mission metrics survey for health professions schools to identify their level of engagement in social mission activities, track that level ove

SUBMITTER: Batra S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678650 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature