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Julie Ann Freischlag1, Katherine Files2
1CEO, Wake Forest Baptist Health; dean, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina jfreisch@wakehealth.edu.
North Carolina Medical Journal
|May 6, 2020
Summary
Community engagement in medical education is vital for health equity and training doctors. These experiences are increasingly important for understanding health and community impacts, especially post-pandemic.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Public Health
- Health Equity
Background:
- Social drivers of health significantly impact patient outcomes and require integration into medical training.
- Community engagement experiences are a key pedagogical approach to address these social determinants.
- The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the critical need to understand health and community implications.
Purpose of the Study:
- To highlight the importance of community engagement in medical education for addressing social drivers of health.
- To emphasize the role of these experiences in fostering health equity.
- To prepare future physicians for complex health challenges.
Main Methods:
- Review of existing literature and best practices in community-engaged medical education.
- Analysis of the impact of social drivers of health on health outcomes.
- Discussion of the relevance of these educational approaches in the context of public health crises.
Main Results:
- Community engagement effectively integrates social determinants of health into medical curricula.
- Physicians trained with these experiences demonstrate enhanced understanding of health equity.
- These educational models are crucial for addressing current and future public health challenges.
Conclusions:
- Integrating social drivers of health through community engagement is essential for medical education.
- This approach is critical for advancing health equity and developing competent physicians.
- The importance of these practices is amplified in light of the COVID-19 pandemic's health and community implications.
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