Students deliver care in homes, communities

Serving patients with unmet health needs is taking on a new meaning for medical students as they provide care for urban and rural patients both in patients ’ homes and in their communities. The experiences also are providing clarity about the social determinants of health and the importance of continuity of care as students become more attuned to their patients’ needs. The immersions into the clinics and greater community are part of the schools ’ work with the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium. The consortium, working to modernize and reshape the way physicians are trained, brings leaders from schools together to share ideas and experiences with new programs that are designed to improve competency, leadership and patient care through innovations that bridge the curriculum gap between medical school and practice. Students from the consortium schools recently came together at University of California, Davis, School of Medicine to share their experiences and gain insights from experts that they can put into practice throughout their careers.Taking health care to patients ’ homes in Florida Students at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine are embedded directly into underserved households in Miami-Dade County. Students very early on see first-hand the challenges that some patients face in taking care of their health, and they gain skills to help the whole patient, said Onelia Lage, MD, FIU HWCOM ’s chief of...
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