The Symposium on the Social and Structural Drivers of Health in Medical Education is taking place on Friday December 8, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PT (11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.)

The objectives of the Symposium are to learn about forces driving healthcare to better address health-related social needs, to explore innovative approaches to teaching about the social and structural drivers of health, and to share challenges and promising practices with colleagues from across the country. 

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Our Symposium is designed for medical educators and physician trainees with a commitment to transforming medical education to more effectively address the social and structural drivers of health.

 

Session topic highlights include: 

• Contextualized Care

• Classroom in the Community

• Household Centered Care as an Educational Strategy

• Advocacy for Policy and Systems Change 

• Strategies for Assessment of SDOH Curricula

• What Physician Trainees Want and Need to be Drivers of Equity and Health Justice

The Symposium on the Social and Structural Drivers of Health in Medical Education is presented by the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the National Collaboration for Education to Address the Social Determinants of Health (NCEAS) at Northwestern.