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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Public Health
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Pre-health programs traditionally focus on science, potentially overlooking social and structural determinants of health.
  • Structural competency training aims to equip future healthcare professionals with the ability to understand and address how societal factors influence health outcomes.
  • Integrating structural competency into undergraduate curricula is a growing area of interest for medical education reform.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary pre-health curriculum emphasizing structural competency with a traditional premedical curriculum.
  • To introduce and utilize a novel evaluation tool, the Structural Foundations of Health Survey © (2016), to assess students' structural skills.
  • To examine how students understand the influence of political, cultural, economic, and social factors on health.

Main Methods:

  • A comparative study was conducted with graduating seniors at Vanderbilt University.
  • Two groups were evaluated: majors in the interdisciplinary Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS) program and traditional premed science majors.
  • The Structural Foundations of Health Survey © (2016) was administered to assess structural competency and understanding of social determinants of health.

Main Results:

  • MHS majors demonstrated higher rates and deeper analysis of the relationships between structural factors and health outcomes compared to premed science majors.
  • MHS students exhibited a superior understanding of structural and cultural competency, particularly concerning race, intersectionality, and racial health disparities.
  • The findings indicate that the interdisciplinary curriculum effectively fosters critical analysis of health inequities.

Conclusions:

  • An interdisciplinary curriculum incorporating structural competency training enhances students' ability to analyze the social determinants of health.
  • The developed Structural Foundations of Health Survey © is a viable tool for evaluating structural skills in pre-health students.
  • These findings align with the increasing emphasis on contextual factors in health and illness by organizations like the MCAT and AAMC.