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Through a 1-year academic record-enhancing postbaccalaureate premedical (PBPM) programme, we introduced HSS to the 25 student cohort during their first biomedical science course and evaluated for curriculum feasibility and student satisfaction. The HSS thread incorporated asynchronous free online modules produced by a national group of HSS educators, followed by a required graded reflection at the end of the training. Over 10 weeks, students watched online modules entitled “What is Health Systems Science?” and “What are Social Determinants of Health?”, followed by a module on “How Systems Thinking Applies to Healthcare”, a webinar presentation on “Contextual Medical Errors”, and concluded with a module on the Social Determinants of Health. PBPM students submitted their required reflections (worth 5% of their total course grade), which asked them to recall the applicability of HSS to medicine, what skills they learned, and how they would apply those skills as a patient advocate.