title: A model for interprofessional health disparities education: student-led curriculum on chronic hepatitis B infection.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although health disparities are commonly addressed in preclinical didactic curricula, direct patient care activities with affected communities are more limited.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To address this problem, health professional students designed a preclinical service-learning curriculum on hepatitis B viral (HBV) infection, a major health disparity affecting the Asian/Pacific Islander (API) population, integrating lectures, skills training, and direct patient care at student-run clinics.
  
  
  METHODS
  An urban health professions campus.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medical and other health professional students at University of California, San Francisco, organized a preclinical didactic and experiential elective, and established two monthly clinics offering HBV screening, vaccination, and education to the community.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Between 2004 and 2009, 477 students enrolled in the student-led HBV curriculum. Since the clinics' inception in 2007, 804 patients have been screened for chronic HBV; 87% were API immigrants, 63% had limited English proficiency, and 46% were uninsured. Serologically, 10% were found to be chronic HBV carriers, 44% were susceptible to HBV, and 46% were immune.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our student-led didactic and experiential elective can serve as an interprofessional curricular model for learning about specific health disparities while providing important services to the local community.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. leslie.sheu@ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Leslie C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Sheu
authors.forename: Brian C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Toy
authors.forename: Emanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kwahk
authors.forename: Albert
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Adler
authors.forename: Cindy J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lai
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D013336:Students, Health Occupations; D013337:Students, Medical