Curricular integration of social medicine: a prospective for medical educators
In the United States, the health of a community falls on a continuum ranging from healthy to unhealthy and fluctuates based on several variables. Research policy and public health practice literature report substantial disparities in life expectancy, morbidity, risk factors, and quality of life, as...
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| author | Allison A. Vanderbilt Reginald F. Baugh Patricia A. Hogue Julie A. Brennan Imran I. Ali |
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| description | In the United States, the health of a community falls on a continuum ranging from healthy to unhealthy and fluctuates based on several variables. Research policy and public health practice literature report substantial disparities in life expectancy, morbidity, risk factors, and quality of life, as well as persistence of these disparities among segments of the population. One such way to close this gap is to streamline medical education to better prepare our future physicians for our patients in underserved communities. Medical schools have the potential to close the gap when training future physicians by providing them with the principles of social medicine that can contribute to the reduction of health disparities. Curriculum reform and systematic formative assessment and evaluative measures can be developed to match social medicine and health disparities curricula for individual medical schools, thus assuring that future physicians are being properly prepared for residency and the workforce to decrease health inequities in the United States. We propose that curriculum reform includes an ongoing social medicine component for medical students. Continued exposure, practice, and education related to social medicine across medical school will enhance the awareness and knowledge for our students. This will result in better preparation for the zero mile stone residency set forth by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education and will eventually lead to the outcome of higher quality physicians in the United States to treat diverse populations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4bfd5db31fa45f593c00ec69558cbe82022-12-22T03:51:54ZengTaylor & Francis GroupMedical Education Online1087-29812016-01-012101310.3402/meo.v21.3058630586Curricular integration of social medicine: a prospective for medical educatorsAllison A. Vanderbilt0Reginald F. Baugh1Patricia A. Hogue2Julie A. Brennan3Imran I. Ali4 Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA Department of Physician Assistant Studies, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA Family Medicine and Division, Adult Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA Department of Neurology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USAIn the United States, the health of a community falls on a continuum ranging from healthy to unhealthy and fluctuates based on several variables. Research policy and public health practice literature report substantial disparities in life expectancy, morbidity, risk factors, and quality of life, as well as persistence of these disparities among segments of the population. One such way to close this gap is to streamline medical education to better prepare our future physicians for our patients in underserved communities. Medical schools have the potential to close the gap when training future physicians by providing them with the principles of social medicine that can contribute to the reduction of health disparities. Curriculum reform and systematic formative assessment and evaluative measures can be developed to match social medicine and health disparities curricula for individual medical schools, thus assuring that future physicians are being properly prepared for residency and the workforce to decrease health inequities in the United States. We propose that curriculum reform includes an ongoing social medicine component for medical students. Continued exposure, practice, and education related to social medicine across medical school will enhance the awareness and knowledge for our students. This will result in better preparation for the zero mile stone residency set forth by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education and will eventually lead to the outcome of higher quality physicians in the United States to treat diverse populations.http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo/article/view/30586/pdf_115health disparitiessocial medicinemedical educationcurriculumLCME |
| spellingShingle | Allison A. Vanderbilt Reginald F. Baugh Patricia A. Hogue Julie A. Brennan Imran I. Ali Curricular integration of social medicine: a prospective for medical educators Medical Education Online health disparities social medicine medical education curriculum LCME |
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