The Medical–Legal Partnership Approach to Teaching Social Determinants of Health and Structural Competency in Residency Programs

Journal Article
Written By NCMLP

Description

Medical-legal partnerships (MLP) present the opportunity to instill in residents a practical understanding of the social determinants of health and provide them with concrete tools to address them. MLP training helps residents develop structural competency and build the skills necessary to address barriers to health at the patient, institutional, and population levels. Through a case study, this Perspective in Academic Medicine explores how residents can address health-harming legal needs working in partnership with interprofessional health care teams that include lawyers, and illustrates how such MLP experiences can relate to competency-based Milestones that are applicable to training residents in all specialties.

 

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Authors

  • Edward Paul

  • Mallory Curran

  • Elizabeth Tobin Tyler

NCMLP

ncmlp@gwu.edu

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