From Knowing to Doing: Implementing Health Equity Education in the Undergraduate Medical Education Clinical Setting

Incorporating health equity into medical education is a crucial component of training the next generation of physician leaders. As such, The University of Texas at Austin's Dell Medical School adopted health equity as a core competency domain in its Leading EDGE curriculum. Health equity teaching begins in the classroom and continues into the clerkship curriculum. MS2 students during the 22-23 academic year (n = 44) exhibited significant increases in health equity competence, evidenced by clinical performance assessments, self-assessments, and student clerkship evaluations. Through assessment and revision of our health equity curriculum, Dell Medical School anticipates further growth in student health equity competence.