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Health Justice Standards in Graduate Medical Education: Moving from Performative to Concrete Change.
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ABSTRACT: Background
Inadequate support for underrepresented-in-medicine physicians, lack of physician knowledge about structural drivers of health, and biased patient care and research widen US health disparities. Despite stating the importance of health equity and diversity, national physician education organizations have not yet prioritized these goals.Aim
To develop a comprehensive set of Health Justice Standards within our residency program to address structural drivers of inequity.Setting
The J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program of Emory University is an academic internal medicine residency program located in Atlanta, Georgia.Participants
This initiative was led by the resident-founded Churchwell Diversity and Inclusion Collective, modified by Emory IM leadership, and presented to Emory IM residents.Program description
We used an iterative process to develop and implement these Standards and shared our progress with our coresidents to evaluate impact.Program evaluation
In the year since their development, we have made demonstrable progress in each domain. Presentation of our work significantly correlated with increased resident interest in advocacy (p<0.001).Discussion
A visionary, actionable health justice framework can be used to generate changes in residency programs' policies and should be developed on a national level.
SUBMITTER: Van Doren VE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9894507 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Health Justice Standards in Graduate Medical Education: Moving from Performative to Concrete Change.
Journal of general internal medicine 20230202 7
<h4>Background</h4>Inadequate support for underrepresented-in-medicine physicians, lack of physician knowledge about structural drivers of health, and biased patient care and research widen US health disparities. Despite stating the importance of health equity and diversity, national physician education organizations have not yet prioritized these goals.<h4>Aim</h4>To develop a comprehensive set of Health Justice Standards within our residency program to address structural drivers of inequity.<h ...[more]