TY  - JOUR
DO  - 10.22454/PRiMER.2018.867250
VL  - 2
DA  - 2018/09/13
N2  - Introduction: Lack of health equity ultimately leads to unequal treatment of diverse patients and contributes to the growing disparities seen in national health. Academic medical centers should consider providing health care providers and biomedical researchers training on how to identify and address health disparities.
Methods: The authors led an introductory health disparities course for graduate students and research and clinical fellows at an academic medical center in the Midwest. We compared pre/postcourse assessments to determine changes in learners’ perceptions and knowledge of health disparities using an unpaired analysis to permit inclusion of responses provided only at baseline.
Results: Sixty-two learners completed preassessment, with 56 completing the postassessment (90%). In the postcourse assessment, learners reported an increase in knowledge of disparities and had changes in their perceptions of health disparities linked to treatment of different patient groups based on demographic characteristics. There was a statistically significant difference in learners’ perceptions of how patients are treated based on gender identity (P=0.02) and sexual orientation (P=0.04).
Conclusions: The results detail how an academic medical center can provide training on health disparities for diverse learners. This study underscores the influence of health disparities from the perspective of learners who conduct biomedical research and patient care. This course serves a model for introductory-level health disparities courses.
PB  - Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
AU  - Balls-Berry, Joyce E.
AU  - Greene, Eddie
AU  - McCormick, Jennifer
AU  - Quirindongo-Cedeno, Onelis
AU  - Weavers, Karen
AU  - Brockman, Tabetha A.
AU  - Bock, Martha
AU  - Valdez Soto, Miguel
AU  - Cornelius, Katherine
AU  - Patten, Christi A.
AU  - Enders, Felicity T.
L2  - http://journals.stfm.org/primer/2018/balls-berry-2017-0050
L1  - http://journals.stfm.org/media/1809/balls-berry-primer2018867250.pdf
TI  - An Academic Medical Center’s Learners’ Perceptions of Health Disparities
ER  -