# Modernizing undergraduate medical education by bringing public health into focus

## TL;DR

This paper discusses how the University of Dundee updated its medical school curriculum to include public health and social factors during the pandemic.

## Contribution

The novel contribution is integrating public health and social determinants into the medical curriculum to enhance adaptability and future-proof graduates.

## Key findings

- Curriculum changes emphasize public health and social determinants of health.
- The updated curriculum helps create a shared understanding of core outcomes.
- The changes aim to make graduates and staff more adaptable to future healthcare challenges.

## Abstract

Healthcare and healthcare education are changing rapidly, being pulled in a number of directions by political, economic, environmental and technological imperatives. At the University of Dundee Medical School a curriculum review during the Covid-19 pandemic has allowed opportunities to reframe aspects of the program to emphasize themes linking public health and social determinants of health to the wider curriculum, while also bringing a shared understanding of the core outcomes of the program. This brings some adaptability into the structure and content of the course, helping graduates and staff to be “future proof.”