title: Training the 21st-Century Health Care Team: Maximizing Interprofessional Education Through Medical-Legal Partnership.
abstract: For too long, many stakeholders in the health care delivery system have ignored the extent to which social determinants of health (SDH) are inextricably woven into and affect individual and population health. The health care system is undergoing a relatively rapid transformation, which has included in part an increasing recognition of SDH's effects. This recognition, in turn, has led to renewed calls for changing the way that physicians are trained and has accelerated medical education curricular reforms. This Perspective focuses on one such innovative method of team-based care and the opportunities for its integration into medical education: medical-legal partnership, a health care delivery model that embeds civil legal services into the spectrum of health care services provided to low-income or otherwise vulnerable patients and communities.
authors.affiliation: E. Tobin-Tyler is assistant professor of family medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School, and assistant professor of health services, policy and practice, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. J. Teitelbaum is associate professor and coprincipal investigator, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tobin-Tyler
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Teitelbaum
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations / Q000941:ethics; D000067408:Legal Services / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000941:ethics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D014481:United States