Teaching the Social Determinants of Health through Medical-Legal Partnerships: A Systematic Review

Journal Article
Written By NCMLP

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The authors conducted a systematic review to better define the impact that educational programs centered on medical-legal partnerships have on trainees’ knowledge, attitudes and future practice with regards to the social determinants of health. Trainees included medical students as well as interns and residents from pediatrics, family medicine, and internal medicine. Interventions ranged from didactic sessions, to advocacy projects, to hands-on community-based learning, to poverty simulation trainings. Benefits to trainees were wide in scope but all programs showed improvements in participants’ understanding, comfort, confidence, and/or abilities in identifying and intervening on the social determinants of health in their patients. This article was published in the BMC Medical Education.

 

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Authors

  • Kristian Welch

  • Benjamin Robinson

  • Michaela Lieberman Martin

  • Amy Salerno

  • Drew Harris

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