A5025989638- Empathy and Medical Education
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Family Support in Illness
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Cognitive and psychological constructs research
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
University of Southern California
2018-2024
Film Independent
2022
Health Education North West
2013
White Memorial Medical Center
2000-2011
London Health Sciences Centre
2007
Mayo Clinic
2007
Alliant International University
1993
University of California, San Francisco
1991
Education of health care clinicians on racial and ethnic disparities has primarily focused emphasizing statistics cultural competency, with minimal attention to racism. Learning about racism unconscious processes provides skills that reduce bias when interacting minority patients. This paper describes the responses a relationship-based workshop toolkit highlighting issues medical educators should address teaching in context pernicious disparities.A multiracial, interdisciplinary team...
ABSTRACTABSTRACTIn this randomized clinical trial, we compared time-limited group psychotherapy and individual psychotherapy. Ninety-eight nonpsychotic psychiatric outpatients participated. There were five therapists, all highly experienced with brief therapies. Significant improvement maintenance of occurred in both treatments. Although treatments quite beneficial on a number our subjective measures, there was clear preference by patients for the therapy. Recommendations are offered...
Physician training programs in undergraduate and graduate medical education strongly recommend that their trainees gain experience helping patients families address end-of-life palliative care issues with knowledge compassion. Currently these are inadequately meeting this goal. This paper describes a creative 1-day workshop or several half-day seminars on the end of life, which delivered as part our family practice intern orientation. The includes self-awareness about death, communicating...
An innovative web-based system was developed to allow patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) be easily administered. Stakeholders guided the design and implementation. The software gives patients access their current previous scores. This pilot study focused on undergoing arthroscopic subacromial decompression, evaluated using Oxford shoulder score (OSS). Patients showing good improvement in OSS were offered choice return for routine follow-up clinic appointments, or continue...
Primary care providers are increasingly responsible for providing mental health in the United States. For those patients who do receive specialty services, primary provider functions as main entry point into system. Given persistent racial and ethnic disparities States, it is not surprising that also present a difficult challenge both U.S. system frontline practitioners. Physicians-in-training require tools rapid psychiatric assessment will quickly identify pertinent symptom clusters...
Interviews with 48 Latino medical outpatients assessed depression via a brief self-report screening measure and structured diagnostic interview. Twenty-eight percent of the sample received DSM-III-R diagnosis major depression. Validity information is provided for measure, which can be used patients, traditionally high-risk group depressive disorders.
This paper addresses the intense personal and professional preparation necessary for becoming an effective anti-racism trainer. The author draws upon diversity training models theory, as well experiences reflections charted a white man actively involved in this field over past ten years.
The convergence of the major social events COVID 19 epidemic and racial protests around George Floyd killing spurred many conversations calls to action for justice. Behavioral Science Forum 2020 invited a plenary presentation discuss guidelines medical education institutions improve their anti-racism curricula. aimed put forward personal experiences family medicine faculty contributing dismantling racism in institutions. Presenters provided (1) breakdown step by process addressing these...
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Context and setting We have implemented an introductory workshop during internship orientation to introduce the concept of doctors as healers themselves their patients. Why idea was necessary Medical training is incredibly stressful. Little attention given in self-care. believe that teaching residents strategies for incorporating personal well-being into daily lives essential longterm doctor wellness should be part residents' professional development. What done initiated orientation,...
Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions family medicine, as interpreted by individual physicians and medical educators in USA elsewhere around world. In ‘IV: perspectives on practice—lenses appreciation’, authors address following themes: ‘Relational connections doctor–patient partnership’, ‘Feminism medicine’, ‘Positive ‘Mindful practice’, ‘The new, old ethics ‘Public health,...