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ARTICLE: Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education
The inclusion of structural competency training in pre-health undergraduate programs may offer significant benefits to future healthcare professionals. This paper presents the results of a comparative...
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ARTICLE: Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Structural Competency Curriculum for Pre-Health Students
Structural competency has emerged as an important new framework for understanding relationships between medical and social domains. Structural competency (Metzl 2010; Metzl and Hansen 2014; Metzl and ...
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ARTICLE: Queer Frontiers in Medicine: A Structural Competency Approach
Over recent years, the experiences of individuals with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex developments have received increasing attention. This attention has led to activism, init...
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ARTICLE: New Medicine for the U.S. Health Care System: Training Physicians for Structural Interventions
The current moment presents an unprecedented opportunity to shift clinical training in the United States from a focus on technological intervention toward provision of more comprehensive health care--...
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ARTICLE: Conflations of Marital Status and Sanity: Implicit Heterosexist Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis in Physician-Dictated Charts at a Midwestern Medical Center.
Removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-II was the first of a series of diagnostic and professional actions that shifted same-sex desire ever fart...
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ARTICLE: Structural Competency in the U.S. Healthcare Crisis: Putting Social and Policy Interventions Into Clinical Practice
It will require training clinicians to see and act on structural barriers to health, to adapt imaginative structural approaches from fields outside of medicine, and to collaborate with disciplines and...
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