A5024828752- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Community Health and Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
2023
<h3>PURPOSE</h3> We undertook a study to evaluate the current state of pedagogy on antiracism, including barriers implementation and strengths existing curricula, in undergraduate medical education (UME) graduate (GME) programs US academic health centers. <h3>METHODS</h3> conducted cross-sectional with an exploratory qualitative approach using semistructured interviews. Participants were leaders UME GME at 5 institutions participating Academic Units for Primary Care Training Enhancement...
Racism has implicit and explicit manifestations that perpetuate disparities negatively influence patient-centered health outcomes. Subsequently, a list of action items was provided to assist medical schools in becoming anti-racist institutions. A deep subject matter knowledge, beliefs, reflections were driving force for the management or faculty members involved undergraduate postgraduate education move forward toward inclusion anti-racism traditional curriculum adapting existing training...
Ataque de nervios (ADN) is a cultural syndrome prevalent in Puerto Ricans characterized as an episode of intense emotional upset due to overwhelming stress.The Nervios Questionnaire, developed at the Center for Study and Treatment Fear Anxiety (CETMA), served diagnostic tool this retrospective secondary data analysis. We evaluated three models regarding ADN's function marker (1) sociodemographic vulnerability, (2) health history risk, (3) psychological vulnerability. This last model was...
Abstract: Background: Mental health care is a top clinical concern for modern Puerto Rico, especially given dramatically changing economic landscape paired with recurrent natural disasters. Youth are particularly at-risk due to long-term impacts of toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences on development. Objectives: Here we present novel clinician–community-educator–scientist partnership address Rican youth mental well-being wellness. We deployed pilot workshops within the Boys &...