Table 2.

Curricular components of the AiA curriculum.

Curricular Component	Activities
1) Introductory workshop	• Faculty-led introductory workshop reviewing social determinants of health and their impact on patient care  • Role-playing about how to ask patients questions related to SDH  • Review of an “advocacy toolkit” with resources and tools to help practice individual advocacy during hospitalization and at time of vulnerable transitions, such as discharge  • Meeting with social workers and case managers to discuss roles and responsibilities in patient advocacy
2) Direct Patient Advocacy	• Students use the skills they obtained from the introductory workshop to advocate for their patients  • Students perform a post-discharge patient follow-up phone call to assess how they are and determine if there were any barriers to care that arose
3) Active Reflection	• Students complete a written reflection focusing on successes, challenges, and lessons learned from the activity
4) Debriefing workshop	• Faculty-led to facilitate reflection of student experiences  • Peer-to-peer sharing of challenges and successes  • Large group sharing of advocacy resources discovered during the rotation  • Large group brainstorm about the role of patient advocacy in their future careers