Clinical Excellence Case Set

Aquifer Social Determinants of Health

Aquifer Social Determinants of Health provides foundational knowledge and a framework for building skills that minimize the effects of social determinants of health (SDOH) on health outcomes.

Aquifer SDOH builds a foundational understanding of social determinants of health and teaches evidence-based strategies to help improve health outcomes for patients. By exploring SDOH in the context of a virtual patient case, learners have the opportunity to work through a realistic patient interaction, reflecting on their own implicit biases and cultural awareness and developing communication and clinical skills that identify underlying issues and provide patient-centered care.

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Just in Time Coverage of Social Determinants of Health Embedded in Select Courses

In addition to the stand-alone cases on Social Determinants of Health included as part of this Clinical Excellence Case Set, select core cases in Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Neurology, and Radiology now have brief teaching on Social Determinants of Health embedded right into the case in the form of a clinical decision making question.

Together the just-in-time curricular threads combined with the deeper principles and application cases provide a strong foundation in Social Determinants of Health across the curriculum without adding faculty time.