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In this chapter, we describe several frameworks for social determinants of health (SDOH) in medical education and specific strategies for teaching around the SDOH, with a focus on interdisciplinary training to engage with health-related social needs in the clinical setting. We include a model workflow for screening for social needs and placing referrals, discuss documentation of social needs and the plan to address them, describe strategies for communicating with patients about social needs in a trauma-informed and culturally humble way, and share cases that can be used for case-based learning. We discuss how clinical teams can make a bigger impact on addressing SDOH through research, performance improvement, and advocacy projects. Last, we describe methods to evaluate learners engaged in SDOH curricula and discuss future steps to advance medical training in this field.

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