Yes and I only realized how badly I was impacted because I'm in a public health research project. Without it, I wouldn't be able to answer that question as well as I could with the insight the project afforded me.
Not everyone is as fortuitous as you.
Exactly, that's why I said these questions are good in theory, poor in practice. 😉
Maybe not helpful for the writers, but it helps the evaluators and adcoms. A medical degree is not an advanced biology degree.
Sorry, when I said "us", I meant applicants. They can't really explain how they were marginalized or how it affected their healthcare or education if they don't know how the healthcare or education system works on the inside.
This is one of the reasons that some of the stronger applicants I've worked with are those that come from non-science backgrounds. The broader training coupled with the necessary pre-requisites is a good mixture of strengths.
I think that you underestimate your fellow applicants who aren't as privileged as you are to have had a public health education. Marginalized applicants who are bio majors are not clueless about how they have been marginalized.
MDs go into different specialties. SDOH is most important in primary care settings. I don’t think it receives or needs to receive as much consideration in surgical specialties. Since medical school education needs to be prepare students to succeed in a wide range of specialties, schools should not overemphasize SDOH “abilities” in admissions.
Could you share some literature on why you think SDOH only matters to primary care?
www.facs.org
I never said it only matters to primary care. I said it matters less in surgical specialties because patients are under anesthesia.
... Why do social determinants of health not matter if a patient is under anesthesia?
Why is it less important than other core competencies, in your mind?
Because you are not going to know anything more from a sedated patient than what physicians pre-op or post-op would/can know.
Not sure what you're getting at here. Are you suggesting surgeons don't need to know anything about the background or health of their patient or consider how those things might effect recovery?
Please restrain your ignorance of medical school class demographics, and of the admissions process.
Please do not restrain using your reading comprehension ability. My comment is not about medical school class demographics or the admissions process. It purely contrasts the marginalized group vs the non-marginalized group.
