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Systems‐Based Practice (SBP) is difficult to define and successfully incorporate into medical education. Nonetheless, it is one of the six Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies that physicians are to attain. Competency in SBP includes understanding of the health system to allow adequate assessment and improvement of the quality of patient care and patient safety. Anatomy Academy (AA) provides a setting where UCLA medical and undergraduate students enter the community to teach fifth graders complex health concepts. Students are encouraged to compliment their pathophysiology and diagnostic training with active practice in communication, program assessment, conflict resolution, and problem solving as they teach complex medical concepts such as problematic cardiac blood flow, lung disease, and gastrointestinal function. Written reflections, program‐ and self‐evaluations suggest that AA provided opportunities to gain basic SBP skills such as improved conflict management and problem solving. Community programs such as AA can contribute to medical education curriculum by allowing early medical student exposure to SBP.Grant Funding Source: Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, UCLA Monica Salinas Fellowship

Anatomy Academy (AA) is an educational intervention program to fight obesity and promote both healthy lifestyles and interest in science in children, through the teaching of basic anatomy and physiology to 5th and 6th grade students in didactic small group and physical activities. AA's potential to cultivate lifestyle change children at the community, state, and national levels is only as effective as its scalability. We report the successful adaption of AA from Stella Middle Charter Academy (Los Angeles, CA) to Salt Lake Arts Academy (Salt Lake City, UT). Volunteer undergraduate and graduate students from UCLA, BYU, and University of Utah Medical School provide great service to their communities while gaining invaluable mentoring experience. AA provides a uniting curriculum and structure, with the flexibility for adaptation to individual site's needs, allowing for creativity to flourish from both students and mentors. Communication via social media has allowed sharing of ideas and experiences across sites. With 5 additional schools in Salt Lake and Utah Counties adopting AA in 2013, including several Title 1 schools, AA is making significant progress to fight obesity one community at a time.Grant Funding Source: The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and the UCLA Monica Salinas Fellowship