Walking the Walk: Integrating a Health Equity Lens in Residency Curricula to Promote Equitable Practice

Date

2025-04-02

Overview

ACGME has identified the importance of incorporating formal teaching about health equity into residency curricula, and many institutions have developed formal curricula to teach specific health equity concepts, such as implicit bias, systemic racism, adverse childhood events, and trauma-informed care. While this content learning is critically important, it is often narrowly focused, delivered in discrete teaching sessions separated from the care of patients, and does not necessarily provide learners with practical skills needed to routinely identify and address the expansive health care inequities experienced by the patients they care for. This webinar will discuss the value of systematically applying a health equity lens in other teaching contexts, particularly those that occur on a daily or weekly basis and that include discussions of issues unique to the local community and application to patient care.  This routine, integrated approach can make identifying, understanding, and responding to health inequities not only an academic topic but a skillset, and can promote a culture of health equity awareness and responsiveness. Presenters will discuss the application of health equity topics throughout a variety of learning settings, including didactic conferences, morbidity and mortality conference, resident QI projects, community based clinical work, and bedside teaching. Participants will be invited to share their approaches to identifying context-specific barriers to equitable care in their patient populations and identify strategies to address health equity within their current curricula.

Speakers

• Pamela Trio, MD
• Kelly Kieffer, MD
• Patrick Francis, MD

Content Track

• DEI

Audience

• GME

Program Type

• Community-Based, University-Based