Implicit Racial Biases and Health Disparities
Health disparities exist and persist because of a complex interplay between structural factors and individual patient care decisions made by clinicians. However, it is often […]
Category: Blogs
This is your Brain in Poverty
One of the most striking impacts of poverty is the way it changes the brain. While some curricula incorporate simulated scenarios that revolve around SDoH […]
META: An Innovative Course on Mindfully Evolving, Thriving, and Advocating for Beginning First-Year Medical Students
The fundamental task of medical education is to transform a novice learner into an empathetic, competent and effective physician. In recent years, the idea of […]
Growing your own advocates – an experience in our residency program
Definition of advocacy: the act or process of supporting a cause or proposal : the act or process of advocating (see ADVOCATE entry 2) something1 Among the updated ACGME milestones in Family […]
A Way to Contextualize the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH): Integrating Lived Experience Panels into Medical Education
Given the importance of the social determinants of health (SDOH) in driving health outcomes and inequities in population health, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education […]
Time to Restructure Medical Education to Heal the Healers
Evidence indicates that health professionals suffer from increasing rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and burnout.1-3 The factors that contribute to these negative outcomes include […]
Resilience in the Age of Pandemics, Systemic Racism, and Polarizing Politicians
In 2020, have you started wondering, “what on earth is going on?” If you have, then I’m right there with you. However, rather than dividing […]
The Next Step in SDOH Education – Training Health Professionals to be Change Agents
After witnessing and experiencing the trauma of dual pandemics on ourselves and on communities of color, it has become apparent that simply teaching our learners […]
Mental Health and the Battle Children Face with Coronavirus
Research shows that the stress and anxiety children are experiencing during coronavirus can have an impact on their health later on in life. –Elizabeth Schilling […]
Making social and structural determinants of health visible to learners at the bedside
How do we teach social determinants of health—and related skills, like cultural humility and structural competence—to health professions learners at the bedside? How do we […]