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The design and implementation of a longitudinal social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine
BACKGROUND: Despite an abundant literature advocating that social determinants of health (SDH) be taught during undergraduate medical education, there are few detailed descriptions of how to design and implement longitudinal core curricula that is delivered to all students and accomplishes this goal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7903930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33627097 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02533-x |
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author | Goyal, Raghav K. Dawson, Christina A. Epstein, Samuel B. Brach, Richard J. Finnie, Sheridan M. Lounsbury, Karen M. Lahey, Timothy Eldakar-Hein, Shaden T. |
author_facet | Goyal, Raghav K. Dawson, Christina A. Epstein, Samuel B. Brach, Richard J. Finnie, Sheridan M. Lounsbury, Karen M. Lahey, Timothy Eldakar-Hein, Shaden T. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Despite an abundant literature advocating that social determinants of health (SDH) be taught during undergraduate medical education, there are few detailed descriptions of how to design and implement longitudinal core curricula that is delivered to all students and accomplishes this goal. METHODS: In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine (UVM Larner). Using Kern’s principles, we designed a longitudinal curriculum that extends through both preclinical and clinical training for all students and focused on integrating SDH material directly into basic science and clinical training. RESULTS: We successfully developed and implemented two primary tools, a “Social Medicine Theme of the Week” (SMTW) in preclinical training, and SDH rounds in the clinical setting to deliver SDH content to all learners at UVM Larner. CONCLUSIONS: Extensive student-faculty partnerships, robust needs assessment, and focusing on longitudinal and integrated SDH content delivery to all students were key features that contributed to successful design and implementation. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-021-02533-x. |
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spelling | pubmed-79039302021-02-25 The design and implementation of a longitudinal social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine Goyal, Raghav K. Dawson, Christina A. Epstein, Samuel B. Brach, Richard J. Finnie, Sheridan M. Lounsbury, Karen M. Lahey, Timothy Eldakar-Hein, Shaden T. BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Despite an abundant literature advocating that social determinants of health (SDH) be taught during undergraduate medical education, there are few detailed descriptions of how to design and implement longitudinal core curricula that is delivered to all students and accomplishes this goal. METHODS: In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine (UVM Larner). Using Kern’s principles, we designed a longitudinal curriculum that extends through both preclinical and clinical training for all students and focused on integrating SDH material directly into basic science and clinical training. RESULTS: We successfully developed and implemented two primary tools, a “Social Medicine Theme of the Week” (SMTW) in preclinical training, and SDH rounds in the clinical setting to deliver SDH content to all learners at UVM Larner. CONCLUSIONS: Extensive student-faculty partnerships, robust needs assessment, and focusing on longitudinal and integrated SDH content delivery to all students were key features that contributed to successful design and implementation. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-021-02533-x. BioMed Central 2021-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7903930/ /pubmed/33627097 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02533-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021, corrected publication 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Goyal, Raghav K. Dawson, Christina A. Epstein, Samuel B. Brach, Richard J. Finnie, Sheridan M. Lounsbury, Karen M. Lahey, Timothy Eldakar-Hein, Shaden T. The design and implementation of a longitudinal social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine |
title | The design and implementation of a longitudinal social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine |
title_full | The design and implementation of a longitudinal social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine |
title_fullStr | The design and implementation of a longitudinal social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine |
title_full_unstemmed | The design and implementation of a longitudinal social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine |
title_short | The design and implementation of a longitudinal social medicine curriculum at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine |
title_sort | design and implementation of a longitudinal social medicine curriculum at the university of vermont’s larner college of medicine |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7903930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33627097 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02533-x |
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