Health Insurance Programs, Extended Social History Taking, and Resources to Overcome Health Care Barriers: Introduction for Medical Students.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Recognizing social determinants of health and addressing barriers to health care are an essential part of medical practice for which students' formal training is inadequate. The majority of medical students feel a professional responsibility to understand health policy, but their knowledge of health care legislation and health insurance is lacking, and their primary information sources are outside the medical education setting. This resource provides an easily implemented tool kit to begin to fill these educational gaps.

Methods

During their first inpatient medicine clerkship, fourth-year students in a 6-year BA/MD program participated in a classroom activity that included instruction on taking a comprehensive social history and a lecture regarding government in

SUBMITTER: Haury E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7809925 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature