Scottish Medical Student Experience of Learning About Social Determinants of Health

A Community of Practice for Teaching the Social Determinants of Health in Undergraduate Medical Education

“…Abbie Dunn and Scott Mackenzie for sharing their knowledge and experience with implementing a multifaceted and longitudinal curriculum at their own institution. 2 While we were careful not to overstate the implications of our review-in recognition that our findings were limited to published programs and research-we also believe that publication can be reflective of the maturity of a field and the priorities of the organizations to which practitioners belong. In other words, if educators are provided with the resources to not only run their programs well but also rigorously assess and benchmark them against peer institutions, then they are more likely to disseminate these practices through publication than those who do not receive such support.…”