Health advocacy training in undergraduate medical education over 20 years: A scoping review

Key Points

• The aim is to evaluate and clarify the state of advocacy training in medical education over the past two decades.
• Conducted a scoping review of advocacy education literature
• Identified conceptual and structural issues in advocacy training
• Sourced evidence-informed design principles
• Analyzed approaches for measuring behavioral change and social impact
• Disidentified breakdowns in meaning, design, and enactment of advocacy education
• Proposed five design principles for effective curriculum development
• Emphasized the need for longitudinal and community-integrated advocacy training
• Highlighted the importance of assessments that gauge actual impact and behavior changes

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