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  • Explain how using race-based medicine can increase health disparities.

  • Choose appropriate, race-agnostic guidelines to drive clinical decision-making.

  • Assess a patient’s social history using a socio-ecological perspective.

  • Reframe individual patient health behaviors as the product of structural determinants of health.

  • Determine how you can contribute to the education of learners who can help form a more diverse and equitable health care system.

  • Improve patient outcomes by addressing health equity in your practice.

  • Explain how addressing social, political, and economic health determinants can have a greater impact on health than acting on individual needs.

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