A5013783361- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- BRCA gene mutations in cancer
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Cancer Risks and Factors
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Maternal and fetal healthcare
- Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
University of Chicago Medical Center
2017-2024
University of Chicago
2016-2023
Baylor College of Medicine
2022
ORCID
2022
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
2017
University of Pittsburgh
2017
National Institutes of Health
2004
National Cancer Centre Japan
2004
Purpose Shared decision making (SDM) is a core competency in health policy and guidelines. Most U.S. internal medicine residencies lack an SDM education curriculum. A standardized patient (SP)-based curriculum teaching key concepts skills of was developed. Method This consisted innovative seven-step model skills-focused SP case, integrated into the ambulatory rotation for senior residents at University Pittsburgh Medical Center 2015. Evaluation pre/postcurriculum surveys assessing residents’...
Health care inequities persist, and it is difficult to teach health professions students effectively about implicit bias, structural inequities, caring for patients from underrepresented or minoritized backgrounds. Improvisational theater (improv), where performers create everything in a spontaneous unplanned manner, may help trainees advancing equity. Core improv skills, discussion, self-reflection can improve communication; build trustworthy relationships with patients; address racism,...
Ninety-minute virtual workshops that used improvisational comedy, standup graphic medicine, and Theatre of the Oppressed were implemented in 2020 within a required health equity course at University Chicago Pritzker School Medicine to train 90 first-year medical students advancing equity. Learning objectives (1) deepen understanding diverse human experiences by developing relationship skills, such as empathy, active listening, engagement, observation; (2) recognize how patients perceive them...
Many women of reproductive age with complex medical conditions receive primary care through an internal medicine (IM) physician rather than obstetrician/gynecologist. Long-acting reversible contraception methods are the most effective form contraception; however, IM residents not routinely trained in them. Infrequent training in, inadequate knowledge of, and discomfort counseling limit performed by residents. Shared decision-making (SDM) is a method patient-centered communication that can...
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This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes guidance from the American Cancer Society regarding cervical cancer screening, including when to initiate frequency of testing, and which modality use.
Despite recommendations for annual chlamydia screening young, sexually active females, rates continue to increase nationally. Medical school students often receive limited training in obtaining comprehensive, risk-based sexual histories, leading less transmitted illnesses (STIs). Consequently, many internal medicine (IM) residents feel unprepared advanced history taking and site-specific STI testing based on practices.We developed a case-based interactive didactic session IM med/peds...
ISEE-163 Background: In order to investigate the relationships between organochlorine levels across different biological media, we utilized measurements in serum, breast adipose and gluteal tissue from cancer patients enrolled a pilot study carried out Kerala, India 1997. Our objective was determine whether serum is reliable biomarker of lifetime body burden organochlorines compounds. This unique population study, with respect compounds, since some (DDT β-BHC) were still commonly used until...
This Teachable Moment describes a case of man readmitted to the hospital for complications with his ileostomy bag; after magnetic resonance imaging brain and appropriate testing, he was diagnosed Huntington disease.