CFE107 Chamberlain's SDOL Framework: Updates and A Call for Research

The education of health professions’ students must be reconsidered in light of our nation’s health equity challenges. The good news is that the number of racially and ethnically diverse students is increasing, students who are well positioned to address health inequities through their care. The challenge is to improve retention, graduation rates and licensure pass rates to graduate healthcare providers committed to advancing health equity in our nation.

An approach: A SDOL framework that identifies six social causative domains, both positive and negative, that are determinants of students’ ability to learn.

A student success model with 1) early assessment as a means for identifying risk for success in health professions’ study and 2) early intervention as a means to reduce risks caused by inequality, which is often a result of under-resourced K-12 education..

Learning Outcomes

• Discuss growth in racial/ethnic diversity across students enrolled in higher education today.
• Recognize education’s unique opportunity to better diversify the healthcare workforce.
• Describe a framework designed to identify determinants of students’ ability to learn.
• Describe early assessment as an approach to risk identification.
• Discuss results from interventional approach through mindfulness techniques to impact risk factors such as stress, resiliency, ability to focus, self-confidence and engagement.