• Kathryn E Oppenlander and Meghan F Raleigh.
• Family Medicine Residency Program, Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Cavazos, TX.
• Fam Med. 2024 Mar 1; 56 (3): 190194190-194.

Background And ObjectivesThe Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires education on health care disparities (HCD), but research assessing formal curricula is limited. To improve knowledge and confidence in HCD, the family medicine residency program at Darnall Army Medical Center implemented a formal HCD curriculum.MethodsDuring the 2021-2022 academic year, starting July 2021, a formal HCD curriculum was implemented for family medicine residents and faculty. Ten lectures on HCDs and implicit bias were given over the course of the year. Residents and faculty were asked to incorporate HCD into their regular continuing medical education lectures. ACGME survey data as well as a pre- and postcurriculum survey were used to assess HCD knowledge and confidence. Descriptive statistics and a paired-sample t tests were calculated to compare pre- to postcurriculum changes.ResultsThe percentage of residents who reported that they had received HCD education increased from 72% on the 2021 ACGME survey to 100% in 2022 (N=18). We found a significant (P<.05) improvement in knowledge and confidence across 11 of 12 questions on the pre- and postcurriculum survey.ConclusionsA formal curriculum in a military family medicine residency setting was effective for improving self-reported HCD knowledge and confidence.

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