INSIGHT: Integrating social determinants of health in medical education during Psychiatry prison placements

Background:

The importance of the social determinants of health (SDOH) is increasingly recognised. However, medical students are taught about them as epidemiological facts. We established a programme in North Wales involving prison placements for medical students, accompanied by specific teaching to contextualise SDOH to individual patients’ mental health problems. This is being evaluated over a four-year follow up. We report findings of qualitative evaluation of the first year-cohort

Method:

Qualitative interviews with students and free text from evaluation forms.