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Zareen Zaidi1, Daniele Ölveczky2, Nicole A Perez3
1Professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC.
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This article suggests how competency-based medical education should robustly integrate health equity by focusing on physicians' responsibilities to (1) know why and how underlying structural mechanisms contribute to health equity and then (2) take action to achieve health equity in their practice. This article first canvasses currently available frameworks for helping trainees cultivate these 2 specific skills of discernment and action. This article then offers strategies for teaching and assessing these skills in specific learning activities.
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