Structural Competency of Pre-health Students: Can a Single Course Lead to Meaningful Change?

ABSTRACT: Scholars within the medical sciences recently have called on undergraduate educators to incorporate the social sciences in order to teach pre-health students structural competencies - or the ability to articulate how social structures produce racial, ethnic, gender, class, and other disparities - in order to better serve these populations medically. Authors used a semester-long course to assess how experiential learning focused on the topic of structural inequities improves structural competency. In Fall 2018, 27 students completed a hands-on, experiential, course focused on structural factors and health disparities. The authors conducted a mixed-methods, pre-/post-test design to solicit data on students' views on the reasons for high rates of obesity, gender pay disparities, and racial/et

SUBMITTER: Ruth A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8368733 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature