Context Health advocacy is an essential component of postgraduate medical education, and
is part of many physician competency frameworks such as the Canadian Medical Education …

The context within which health care and public health systems operate is framed by health
policies. There is growing consensus about the need for increased health policy leadership …

Purpose Student-run clinics (SRCs) provide preclerkship medical students with systems-
based practice (SBP) experiences as they engage in patient care and manage clinic …

Leaders in medical education have increasingly called for the incorporation of cost
awareness and health care value into health professions curricula. Emerging efforts have …

For the initial review of the entries, three competition co-chairs (NS, CM, VMA)
independently scored all the abstracts by assigning one point to each criterion of two …

Introduction Half of the US population has chronic illness. Many disparities exist in health
care for management of chronic disease among poorer individuals, including decreased …

Core competencies for midwifery practice include an understanding of systems of health
care delivery and advocacy for legislation and policy initiatives that promote quality in health …

Problem Nearly half of graduating medical students in the United States report that medical
school provides inadequate instruction in topics related to health policy. Although most …

Background Advocacy is increasingly being recognized as a core element of medical
professionalism and efforts are underway to incorporate advocacy training into graduate and …

Background: A novel and comprehensive two-year health policy curriculum was developed
and implemented for family medicine residents at two University of Toronto-affiliated …