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Editorial
Combatting Fragmentation: Lessons Learned from an Integrative Approach to Teaching Health Equity.
While social medicine education is a long-established field of study within medical education,1 implementation has historically been through elective coursework making integration, assessment, and evaluation challenging. The launch of the novel Washington University in St. ⋯ Additionally, the Gateway HEJ curriculum presented an opportunity to explore novel ways of assessing medical students, as well as illuminating additional opportunities for faculty development to ensure fidelity to the HEJ content. This paper includes the process of development as well as the lessons learned, limitations, and future plans for iterative improvements to the curriculum.
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Holistic review has become the gold standard for residency selection. As a result, many programs are de-emphasizing standardized exam scores and other normative metrics. However, if standardized exam scores predict passing of an initial certifying exam, this may lead to an increase in board failure rates within specific residency training programs who do not emphasize test scores on entry. ⋯ All programs do not recruit students entering residency with an identical chance of passing boards. Therefore, we believe the ABMS member boards should stop publicly reporting raw certifying exam rates above a certain threshold for normative comparison. We strongly encourage the use of learning analytics to create a residency "expected board pass rate" that would be a better metric for program evaluation and accreditation.