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I. PROPOSAL SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: The COVID pandemic illuminated the fact that racism is a root cause of health disparities in the US and compels health systems to utilize the most robust and innovative approaches to address racism in medicine (1, 2, 3). Diversity in medicine is critical to addressing structural racism in the healthcare system, but by itself is not enough. Medical education institutions, in particular, need to work on creating environments of inclusion and belonging across the health system.

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The UCSF Clinical Microsystems Clerkship (CMC)¹ is a curricular innovation that embeds all 330 MS1s and MS2s at SFVAHCS, UCSF and ZSFG, contributing over 10,000 person-hours yearly to advancing health systems improvement. CMC improvement projects are interprofessional. Students interact with, and learn from, nurses, pharmacists, quality improvement experts, and psychologists. While the preceptor and student perspectives of the value of the CMC have been previously explored^2,3, the perspectives of health system leaders regarding this health system/medical school collaboration are unknown. This project will explore the value and impact of early medical students’ health systems improvement efforts from the perspective of approximately 20 interprofessional healthcare system and academic leaders with the goal to produce guidelines that inform the development and evaluation of future CMC projects.

In 21st-century healthcare, there has been a seismic swing toward collaborative, multidisciplinary teams in research to

address complex challenges. This paradigm shift recognizes that problems are increasingly global and resourceintensive,

and solutions require inclusive and collective efforts, termed ‘team science.’ Though some UCSF

researchers are embracing team science approaches, the curriculum is still individual-focused rather than collective

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