A social ecological approach to promote learning health disparities in the clinical years: impact of a home-visiting educational program for medical students.

ETGAR was perceived to complement hospital-based learning, making students witness the interaction between patients' circumstances and health and exposing them to four patients' environment levels. It provided a didactic framework for promoting awareness to SDOH and tools and behaviors required to ameliorate their impact on health and health disparities. The course combined communication and community learning into traditionally bio-medical clinical years and serves as a model for how social-ecology approaches can be integrated into the curriculum.