#ThrowbackThursday: On the Journey to Achieve Health Equity: Teaching the Next Generation of Physicians
Editor’s Note: In honor of #ThrowbackThursday, we are highlighting this 2015 blog post from our archives. For more on strategies aimed at improving population health and health equity, check out “Advancing Population Health at Academic Medical Centers: A Case Study and Framework for an Emerging Field” in the June 2019 issue of Academic Medicine.
I have worked on minority issues, equity, and
social justice for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I grew up in
Pennsylvania on a small farm, while most of my family lived in the Bronx. From
an early age I could see the systemic inequities in education and opportunity,
even if I couldn’t describe them as such.
As a junior medical school faculty member, I
realized that I wanted to improve minority health by educating the next
generation of physicians. My co-course director, Aaron Fox, MD, MS, and I
developed a thirteen-session health disparities elective for first-year medical
students. The curriculum covers three main content areas: background, provider
contributions to health disparities, and systemic contributions to health
disparities. We used various teaching methods, including didactic and
multimedia presentations, reflective discussions, and active learning
skill-building. Using a pre-/posttest assessment, we found that we were able to
increase our students’ knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported confidence in
addressing provider and systemic contributions to health disparities. Our
instructional strategies a...
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