What Should Health Professions Trainees Learn About Built Environment Activism?

This article offers examples of connections between built environments and health outcomes and discusses the current state of regulation of built environments. This article also suggests ethical questions about oversight and how health professions trainees can advocate for healthier built environments.

How Should Organizations Be Held Accountable for Promoting Environments That Foster Social Connection?

Growing familiarity with health risks of loneliness and isolation underscores the importance of social connection in patients' lived environments and communities. Deficits in social connection are linked to poor cognitive, mental, and physical health and premature death. Design interventions for physical environments-structures, spaces, and soundscapes, for example-can foster social connection, support, and resilience.

Measuring Age-Friendliness of Transportation and Mobility Characteristics in Communities: A Scoping Review.

Background And Objectives: Age-friendly communities are those with characteristics that can support and promote healthy aging. Among the common domains of these characteristics, transportation and neighborhood spaces are particularly relevant for older adults maintaining mobility in their communities. The objective of this scoping review is to provide a synthesis of age-friendly community indicators, developed for research and planning, that evaluate characteristics most associated with community-level mobility, specifically transportation and neighborhood spaces.

The Bioethics of Built Space: Health Care Architecture as a Medical Intervention.

Decisions made in health care architecture have profound effects on patients, families, and staff. Drawing on research in medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, design is being used increasingly often to alter specific behaviors, mediate interpersonal interactions, and affect patient outcomes. As a result, the built environment in health care should in some instances be considered akin to a medical intervention, subject to ethical scrutiny and involving protections for those affected.

Calibration Bias and the Interpretation of Clinical Learning Environment Perceptions Surveys.

Background: The clinical learning environment (CLE) is frequently assessed using perceptions surveys, such as the AAMC Graduation Questionnaire and ACGME Resident/Fellow Survey. However, these survey responses often capture subjective factors not directly related to the trainee's CLE experiences.

Objective: The authors aimed to assess these subjective factors as "calibration bias" and show how it varies by health professions education discipline, and co-varies by program, patient-mix, and trainee factors.