Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Background: Interprofessional collaboration is key to reducing overincarceration of people with severe mental illness. One collaboration model emphasizes cognitive tasks: becoming familiar with values and knowledge of other disciplines. Another model emphasizes calibrating expertise to the demands of the workplace….
Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Art Rounds is an interprofessional workshop that uses art to develop nursing and medical students’ observation skills and empathy. The workshop’s joint emphasis on interprofessional education (IPE) and visual thinking strategies (VTS) is intended to improve patient outcomes, strengthen interprofessional…
Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Milwaukee has become home to one of the largest US populations of Rohingya refugees, who face barriers to health care, including poor service integration impeded by the absence of a formal written language. Clinicians also face barriers to delivering adequate,…
Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Classroom-based interprofessional education (IPE) has been shown to improve medical students’ understanding of IPE competencies, but less is known about how those skills apply in clinical environments. This study assesses an IPE session’s influence on medical students’ interactions with cross-disciplinary…
Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This commentary on a case considers when physicians offering health advice on diet has potential to undermine trust. If physicians fail to model behaviors for which they advocate, they could be targeted by media or have disputes with colleagues, which…
Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
The nutrition care process (NCP) accounts for a person’s biological sex characteristics but does not adequately address their gender. Yet dietary choices express one’s social identity in ethically and clinically relevant ways. Persons identifying as men tend to eat meat…
Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This article presents 5 general points that every clinician should know about animals, health, and the environment, focusing on why animals matter for their own sakes, why animals matter for health and environmental threats, why health and environmental threats matter…
Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This commentary on a case suggests why health care organizations have responsibilities to serve food to their patients, guests, and employees that is ethically, nutritionally, culturally, and religiously appropriate. This article also investigates how inclusive, equitable, sustainable food services are…
Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Most meatpacking workers are Black, Latinx, and immigrant workers earning low wages and at high risk for occupational injury. Most meat and poultry plants have on-site workplace clinics (OWCs) where workers are required to obtain care for work-related injuries or…
Posted on January 9th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about facial feminization surgery and how clinicians can best support patient decisions around gender-affirming care. The featured guest is Eric Plemons,…