Teaching and assessment materials and more created for healthcare educators, so learners understand how to incorporate social determinants of health into practice. By sharing these tools, we hope to improve health outcomes for everyone. Tomorrow’s better healthcare begins here.
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Social Contexts in Medicine: A Patient-Centered Curriculum Empowering Medical Students to Provide Contextualized Care
This MedEdPORTAL resource presents an elective, 18 month curriculum developed by medical students to teach incoming first year medical students about social determinants of health. […]
Chapman, Alice
Medical Students
Access to Care
Community Medicine
Culture/Culture Humility/Culture Competence
General SDOH
Medical Ethics and Health Equity: The Henrietta Lacks Story
This MedEdPORTAL resource introduces the topics of medical ethics and health equity through the historical lens of the case of Henrietta Lacks. Teams of students […]
Barkley, Lisa
Medical Students
Health Disparities
Medical Ethics
From Identification to Advocacy: A Module for Teaching Social Determinants of Health
This MedEdPORTAL resource introduces the broader topic of social determinants of health (SDH) to second-year medical students, with a particular focus on advocacy. Students gain […]
McDonald, Morgan
Medical Students
Access to Care
Advocacy
General SDOH
Aging, Culture, and Health Communication: Exploring Personal Cultural Health Beliefs and Strategies to Facilitate Cross-Cultural Communication With Older Adults
This publication, from MedEdPORTAL, is a single-session curriculum to help health professions students appreciate the diversity of health beliefs among older adults and gain communication […]
Agness-Whittaker, Chanel
Dental Students
Pharmacy Students
Culture/Culture Humility/Culture Competence
Racism as a Unique Social Determinant of Mental Health: Development of a Didactic Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents
This MedEdPORTAL lecture series, for residents in psychiatry, uses an approach to racism established by Dr. Camara Jones, in which racism consists of three levels: […]
Medlock, Morgan
Residents
Racism
Substance Use Disorder Training Workshop for Future Interprofessional Health Care Providers
This curriculum from MedEdPORTAL is a 4 hour workshop focused on opioid use disorder which is an interprofessional learning experience. Most learning takes place in […]
Monteiro, Kristina
Medical Students
Nursing Students
Pharmacy Students
Physical Therapy Students
Social Work Students
Health Behaviors (substance abuse, obesity, tobacco)
Substance Use Disorder
When Race Matters on the Wards: Talking About Racial Health Disparities and Racism in the Clinical Setting
This small group session, from MedEdPORTAL, introduces third-year medical students to issues of race in clinical care using case-based discussions. Strengths of the curriculum include […]
Brooks, Katherine
Medical Students
Implicit/Explicit Bias
Racism
HIV: A Socioecological Case Study
This single session case-based learning experience, from MedEdPORTAL, focuses on a medically complex patient with HIV and the social determinants of health which impact his/her […]
Sell, Jarrett
Medical Students
Gender/Sexuality/LGBTQ Health
Health Disparities
Community Perspectives in Medicine: Elective for First- Year Medical Students
This resource, from MedEdPORTAL, is an elective course which introduces medical students to community based organizations that represent and advocate for communities of diverse populations. […]
Kutscher, Eric
Medical Students
Culture/Culture Humility/Culture Competence
Environment/neighborhoods/community assets
Healthy Homes, Healthy Futures: A Home Visitation Curriculum for Pediatric Residents
This is a Home Visit curriculum, from MedEdPORTAL, on obesity for Pediatric residents. It is embedded within the 4 week Community Health rotation, but is […]
Essel, Kofi
Residents
Adverse childhood events
Community Medicine
Environment/neighborhoods/community assets
Food Insecurities
Health Behaviors (substance abuse, obesity, tobacco)