• JAMA network open · Aug 2020

    Assessment of Training in Health Disparities in US Internal Medicine Residency Programs.

    • Denise M Dupras, Mark L Wieland, Andrew J Halvorsen, Maria Maldonado, Lisa L Willett, and Linda Harris.
    • Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota.
    • JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Aug 3; 3 (8): e2012757.

    ImportanceHealth disparities continue to exist despite the call to increase education of health care practitioners. An assessment of health disparities education has not been previously studied in a national cohort.ObjectiveTo describe and compare the curriculum on health disparities from the perspective of program directors and perceptions of training among internal medicine residents.Design, Setting, And ParticipantsThis cross-sectional survey study used a survey of US internal medicine program directors, the 2015 Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine annual survey, which included questions about health disparities curriculum, and a 1-time survey of US internal medicine residents that asked questions related to their training in health disparities on the American College of Physicians 2015 Internal Medicine In-Training Examination. All internal medicine program directors who were members of Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (368 of 396 accredited programs), and internal medicine residents who took the Internal Medicine In-Training Examination were eligible. Final analysis of the merged data set was completed in 2018.ExposuresQuestions were included on the annual Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine survey and the Internal Medicine In-Training Examination.Main Outcomes And MeasuresProgram directors reported on presence of health disparities curriculum, educational methods, quality, barriers and challenges to curriculum, and Clinical Learning Environment Review. Residents reported whether they received training and quality of the training in health disparities.ResultsA total of 227 program directors (response rate, 61.7%) and 22 723 residents (response rate, 87.2%) responded to the surveys. A total of 90 program directors (39.6%) reported a curriculum in health disparities, but among these, only 16 program directors (17.8%) felt quality of their education was very good or excellent. In more than half of the programs (52 programs [55.9%]), outcomes of the curriculum were not measured. After merging, the combined data set included 18 883 residents from 366 APDIM member programs with 225 program director responses. Among these, 13 251 residents (70.2%) reported some training in caring for patients at risk for health disparities. Of residents who reported receiving training, 10 494 (79.2%) rated the quality as very good or excellent.Conclusions And RelevanceThese findings suggest that that despite the Clinical Learning Environment Review mandate and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education required competencies for training in health disparities, relatively few internal medicine programs in the US provided educational curriculum. Additionally, the existence of health disparities curricula in internal medicine training programs was not associated with resident's perception of training or its quality.

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