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The Child and Adolescent Motivation and Enrichment Program (CHAMP), an initiative pairing pre-clerkship medical students with pediatric patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD), provides support to HD patients while also providing medical students with opportunities to increase their comfort in the clinical environment and awareness of social determinants of health (SDH).
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Neumann, O., Ferrante, J., Camhi, S.S. et al. Pre-clerkship Pediatric Exposure Enhances Understanding of Social Determinants of Health. Med.Sci.Educ. 31, 1259–1261 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-021-01329-4
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