The Tennessee Department of Health’s Primary Prevention Clinical Advisory Council (PPCAC) has published Health Equity Competencies for Health Professions Students in Tennessee.
This document represents the efforts of a broadly representative group of clinicians, educators, and non-profit administrators to establish and disseminate guidelines and competencies specific to training a workforce to address the needs of Tennesseans.
There are five major competency domains:
- Population Health
- Core Concepts: Health Equity and Social Drivers of Health
- Whole Person Care
- Community Health
- Health Ecosystem
The framework also references three essential areas for efforts aimed at achieving health equity:
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Community Engagement
- Trauma-informed Approaches and Practices
TDH offers this list of competencies as a guide to educators and administrators as they craft new curricular strategies or revise existing curricula using a health equity lens. It is not meant to be a curricular mandate or to supplant other published frameworks.
The full document and list of domains and individual competencies can be found here.
We encourage TIPEC members to disseminate the framework to colleagues who might find them helpful.