Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed ...

The medical education community is pushing back against a proposal by the nation’s primary accreditor of medical schools to backtrack on explicit requirements to teach structural competency—or how ...

Figure 1 depicts the ways in which implicit bias (including stereotypes) that leads to false assumptions about an individual patient, combined with inattention to systemic and structural factors ...

Future doctors may no longer be required to learn about how social and economic factors affect health. A major U.S. accreditation group—the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)—has removed ...

For decades, American medicine addressed some of its most persistent problems -- racial, geographic, and economic inequities in health outcomes, unequal treatment, mistrust -- by focusing on the ...

Structural competence, a framework encouraging physicians to recognize the broad forces affecting patients, is yet another valuable analytic concept now facing political pushback. Jeremy A. Greene, ...

Physical activity is a cornerstone of musculoskeletal (MSK) health. It reduces pain, improves function and supports recovery from injury.1 Yet, persistent disparities in physical activity and MSK ...

Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

Competency models articulate the measurable combination of skills, knowledge, abilities and behaviours required for effective job performance and organisational success. Originating in the late ...

Perfection may be your goal when developing a competency model for your supply management team. While that’s admirable, keep in mind the most important characteristics of the plan are consistency and ...