Centering marginalized voices in advocacy for equitable policy change in kidney disease.

Purpose Of Review: Inequities in kidney disease are a result of differences in healthcare access and inequitable structural policies that lead to downstream social challenges. An individual with kidney disease sits at the intersection of a variety of governmental and institutional policies that directly affect their access to kidney healthcare and different care delivery models. However, their voice in policy change is often neglected by stakeholders with more structural power.

The Transplant Experience for Undocumented Immigrant Patients Formerly Receiving Emergency Dialysis and Caregivers.

Importance: Individuals of undocumented immigration status with kidney failure face barriers to receiving transplants due to lack of health insurance despite no regulatory barriers. Little is known about the perspectives on kidney transplant among individuals with undocumented immigration status with kidney failure who relied on emergency hemodialysis.

Objective: To examine the overall experiences of transplant among transplant recipients of undocumented immigration status who previously relied on emergency hemodialysis and their family caregivers.

Challenging Health Inequities in Incarceration: a Call for Equitable Care for Kidney Disease and Hypertension.

Purpose Of Review: To review the current literature on care of hypertension and chronic kidney disease for people who are currently and formerly incarcerated, and to make recommendations for improving outcomes.

Recent Findings: There is a growing body of literature describing care for kidney disease and hypertension for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals that documents the provision of care itself, notably that many jails contract with private companies; the system is not designed to provide sustained, chronic disease care; and the transition from incarceration to community is fraught with gaps in care. However, deficiencies in data collection and regulation still limit our understanding of the quality of care provided in jails and prisons.

A mixed methods study to evaluate the impact of a student-run clinic on undergraduate medical education.

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent to which a longitudinal student-run clinic (SRC) is meeting its stated learning objectives, including providing critical community services and developing physicians who more fully appreciate the social factors affecting their patients' health.

Methods: This was a mixed methods program evaluation of an SRC at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (MCASOM). A survey was conducted of medical students who had participated in the clinic and seven interviews and three focus groups were conducted with SRC patients, students, faculty, staff, and board members.

Patient participation in medical student teaching: a survey of hospital patients.

Background: Despite the common practice of involving in-patients in the teaching of medical students little is known about the experience for patients. This study investigated inpatients' willingness, motivations and experience with participation in medical student bedside teaching.

Methods: In-patients at a tertiary hospital who participated in medical student teaching answered a 22 question survey.