Social Mission Resources + Reading Guides
> Key Publications
Selection Process
This section includes social mission related peer-reviewed articles. In this section, you have the opportunity to explore resources that have been categorized by our Alliance members.
Literature
- Defining and measuring social accountability of medical schools
by Charles Boelen and Jeffery E. Heck (WHO, 1995) - The Social Mission of Medical Education: Ranking the Schools
by Mullan, et al. (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2010) - Towards Graduate Medical Education (GME) Accountability: Measuring the Outcomes of GME Institutions
by Chen, et al. (Academic Medicine, 2013) - Social Mission Metrics: Developing a Survey to Guide Health Professions Schools
by Batra, et al. (Academic Medicine, 2020) - Looking backwards to move forward: Using a social mission lens in nursing education
by Darcy-Mahoney, et al. (J of Professional Nursing, 2020) - Honoring Medicine’s Social Contract: A Scoping Review of Critical Consciousness in Medical Education
by Manca et al. (Academic Medicine, 2020) - The social mission in medical school mission statements: associations with graduate outcomes
by Morley et al. (Fam Med, 2015)
Perspectives
& Commentary
- Social Mission in Health Professions Education: Beyond Flexner
by Fitzhugh Mullan (Jama, 2017) - The Civil Rights Doctor, Revisited
by Fitzhugh Mullan (Academic Medicine, 2019) - Social Accountability: A Framework for Medical Schools to Improve the Health of the Populations They Serve
by James Rourke (Academic Medicine 2018)
Policy
- Global Consensus for Social Accountability of Medical Schools (2010)
- Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century: A Global Independent Commission (The Lancet, 2010)
- Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education: A Workshop (Institute of Medicine, 2016)
- Student Alliance Letter to the Biden-Harris Administration
- Letter to House Ways and Means Committee
Videos
Fitzhugh Mullan TedTalk: Equity in medicine is currently one of the most heated issues in the United States. Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan argues that in order to create medical equality in the US, we must target the root of the problem, and reform medical education so that it focuses on the social mission of medicine.
Don Berwick Interview: Donald Berwick, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) for nearly 20 years and former Administrator of CMS provides insights on social mission.
Tools
- Compendium of Strategies to Increase Health Workforce Diversity – a working list of strategies used by education programs and others to promote diversity without the use of race in admission policies.
- Social Mission Metrics Initiative – centers around the creation and use of metrics to measure social mission in health professions schools. By providing a tool to objectively assess the status of social mission, the Initiative aims to advance Social Mission in health professions education.
- Framework for Socially Accountable Health Workforce Education – a practical tool to help schools align the training of health workers with community needs, includes a logic model and evaluation framework for socially accountable health professional education.
- Health Workforce Diversity Tracker – an interactive tool developed by our Health Workforce Diversity Initiative to allow users to assess the diversity of healthcare professionals in the United States, at the national, state, and local level.
Training and Curriculum
- MedEdPortal – an open-access journal of teaching and learning resources in the health profession published by AAMC and ADEA. Includes training on anti-racism, interprofessional education and practice, community engagement, advocacy, primary care, and other social mission topics.
- The Portal of Geriatrics Online Education – a collection of geriatrics educational materials for interprofessional educators and learners, including topics such as environmental geriatrics, aging in place.
> Featured Resources
Programs
Beyond Flexner: Social Mission Case Studies
In 2011, a study team led by Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan site visited six medical schools based on their innovative approaches to teaching, modeling and promoting social mission. The team identified eight modalities essential to the social mission: school mission, pipeline cultivation, student admissions, structure and content of curriculum, location of clinical experience, debt management, mentoring/role modeling, and post-graduate engagement. These modalities formed the basis for the Social Mission Metrics Initiative and the schools included:
- Morehouse School of Medicine Site Visit Report: September 6-7,
- Morehouse School of Medicine Beyond Flexner Report
- University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine Site Visit Report: April 12 -15, 2011
- University of New Mexico School of Medicine Site Visit Report: November 16-18, 2011
- A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona Fact Sheet
- A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona Site Visit Report: November 7-11, 2011
- Northern Ontario School of Medicine Site Visit Report: October 5-7, 2011
- Southern Illinois University Site Visit Report: September 21-23, 2011
Organizations
& Opportunities
- Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Health Equity & Research – AAMC resource page, which includes tracking of health equity funding opportunities, conferences, and fellowship and training programs.
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Workforce Funding Opportunities
- Organization of Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) – prioritized social mission in 2020 and conducted a survey of members during their 2020 convention on how associate degree nursing programs are addressing social determinant and social mission.
- Towards Unity for Health – An international organization that fosters equitable community-oriented health services, education and research with the goal of improving health locally and globally. Convene an annual international conference and hosts a MEDLINE indexed journal, Education for Health.
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Consortium on Social Accountability in Health Professions Education in the Region of the Americas – consortium of 3 PAHO collaborating centers, 10 innovative medical and health sciences schools in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 2 leading organizations on social accountability.
- THEnet: Training for Health Equity Network – an organization of global members and partners contributing to health equity through health workforce education, research, and service based on the principles of social accountability and community engagement.
