A Community-engaged Curriculum at Alpert Medical School: Centering Patient Communities in Medical Education.

Background: Incorporating opportunities for community engagement into undergraduate medical education (UME) can help learners to identify and address social determinants of health (SDoH). Multiple challenges exist in operationalizing these experiences.

Methods: Using the Assessing Community Engagement (ACE) model, course directors at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (AMS) mapped community engagement initiatives to the four-year curriculum.

My Life, My Story: Integrating a Life Story Narrative Component Into Medical Student Curricula.

Introduction: Medical students experience burnout, depersonalization, and decreases in empathy throughout medical training. My Life, My Story (MLMS) is a narrative medicine project that aims to combat these adverse outcomes by teaching students to interview patients about their life story, with the goal of improving patient-centered care competencies, such as empathy.

Methods: The MLMS project was started in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system and has since spread to dozens of VA sites.