Ethnicity and Medicine - Spring 2011
Lecture Schedule
Lecture titles are subject to change. Full videos from last years lectures are shown here. This years lectures will be video taped.
March 30
Lecture 1: Cultural Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Ronald Garcia, PhD, Director of the Center of Excellence in Diversity in Medical Education at the Stanford University School of Medicine
Readings for Unit 11) Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Executive Summary). National Academy of Sciences, 2003.
2) Garcia, Ronald D., and Mary Em Wallace, PAs and Cultural Diversity, Physician Assistant: A Guide to Clinical Practice. Ballweg et al., ed., W.B. Saunders Company, 1994.
3) Center for Disease Control and Prevention, MMWR, January 2011, CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report-United States, 2011. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
April 6
Lecture 2: The Patient’s Story in Diagnosis and Treatment
Speaker: Eduardo Dolhun, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF; Founder, Doctors Outreach Clinics
Readings for Unit 21) Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., Narrative and Medicine. The New England Journal of Medicine, Feb 2004.
2) Eduardo Pena Dolhun, MD, Claudia Munoz, MPH, and Kevin Grumbach, MD. Cross-cultural Education in U.S. Medical Schools: Development of an Assessment Tool, ACADEMIC MEDICINE, VOL. 78, NO. 6 / JUNE 2003
April 13
Lecture 3: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cancer
Speaker: Kim F. Rhoads, MD, MPH, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director of Cancer Education and Community Partnership, Cancer Prevention Institute of California and Stanford Cancer Center
Readings for Unit 31) Arden M Morris, MD, MPH; Kim F Rhoads, MD, MPH; Steven C Stain, MD; John D
Birkmeyer, MD, Understanding Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment and Outcomes. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, manuscript draft.
2) Rhoads KF, Ackerson LK, Jha AK, Dudley RA., Quality of Colon Cancer Outcomes in Hospitals with a High Percentage of Medical Patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2008 Aug;207(2):197-204. Epub 2008 May 19.
April 20
Lecture 4: Integrative Medicine, Acupuncture, and Asian Americans: A Primary Care Perspective from Oakland Chinatown
Speaker: Steven Chen, Stanford AB '95, MD '00, Family Physician, Asian Health Services, Bravewell Fellow '06, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Readings for Unit 41) Quyen Ngo-Metzger, M.D., M.P.H., Anna T. R. Legedza, Sc.D., and Russell S. Phillips, M.D., Asian Americans' Reports of Their Health Care Experiences. The Common Wealth Fund, February 2, 2004.
2) Andrew Weil, MD, What is Integrative Medicine? (Video: 2 minutes)
3) Katherine Kam, What is Integrative Medicine? Experts explore new ways to treat the mind, body, and spirit -- all at the same time.WebMD Feature Archive.
4) Joseph M Helms, MD, Overview of Medical Acupuncture. American Academy of Medical Acupuncture.
April 27
Lecture 5: Challenges of Providing Culturally Competent Care: an Orthopedic Surgeon's Perspective
Speaker: Alberto Bolanos, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Orthopedic Institute of the Bay Area, Co-Founder of the American Association of LATINO Orthopaedic Surgeons (AALOS)
Readings for Unit 51) M. Tervalon and J. Murray-Garcia. Cultural Humility Versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education. Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, Vol 9: No 2, 1998.
2) J. Betancourt, MD,MPH, A. Green, MD, J. Emilio Carrillo, MD,
MPH and O. Ananeh-Firempong II. Defining Cultural Competence: A Practical Framework for Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care. Public Health Reports, Volume 118, July–August 2003.
3) J. Campinha-Bacote. The Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services: A Model of Care. Journal of Transcult Nursing, 13(3): 181-4, discussion 200-1, July 2002.
May 4
Speaker: Thomas Sequist, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Readings for Unit 61) Jennifer B. Wells, Increasing Access, Improving Care: BWH Doctors Volunteer At Indian Health Service Hospitals. Brighamand Women's Outreach Program, Indian Health Service.
2) Thomas D. Sequist, MD ,MPH ,Theresa Cullen, MD ,MS, and John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, Information Technology as a Tool to Improve the Quality of American Indian Health Care. American Journal of Public Health, Sequist et al., Peer Reviewed, Race,Genetics,and Health Disparities, December 2005, Vol 95, No. 12.
3) Thomas D.Sequist, MD, MPH, Theresa Cullen, MD, MS, Kenneth Bernard, BA, Shimon Shaykevich, MS, E. John Orav, PhD,and John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, Trends in Quality of Care and Barriers to Improvement in the Indian Health Service. Sequist et al.: Quality of Care in the Indian Health Service, Published Online 04 December 2010.
4) Thomas D. Sequist, MD, MPH, Paving the Way — Providing Opportunities for Native American Students. N ENGL J MED 353;18 www.nejm.org November 3, 2005.
May 11
Lecture 7: Examining the Trauma of Racism: A Public Health Challenge
Speaker: Tommy Lee Woon, MA, Associate Dean of Educational Resources, Director of Diversity and First-Gen Programs
Readings for Unit 71) Aya Kasai, Tommy Lee Woon, MA, Touching the Heart of Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing When Facing History. Workshop Activity.
2) Nancy Krieger, PhD, Does Racism Harm Health? Did Child Abuse Exist before 1962? On Explicity Questions, Critical Science, and Current Controversies: An Ecosocial Perspective. Racial/Ethnic Bias and Health, American Journal of Public Health, February 2003, Vol. 93, No. 2.
3) Thea M. Lee, M.A., LMFT(CA), SEP and Tommy Lee Woon, M.S., SEP. Understanding the Effects of Prejudice, Discrimination and Inequity in the Body.
May 18
Lecture 8: The Role of Medical Interpreters: Stanford Hospital
Speaker: Luis Alberto Molina, Johanna Parker, Margarita Bekker: Stanford Hospital Interpreting ServicesReadings for Unit 81) Fuentes, A. ¿Comprende, doctor? USA Today, February 21, 2007.
2) Schinske, M. Giving a Voice to Limited-English Proficient Patients in California: Healthcare Interpreters Share Their Stories. Abstract of an Environmental Scan, California Healtcare Interpreting Association, June/July 2005.
3) Hua, V. Non-English speakers find ERs hard to reach. San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2007.
May 25
Lecture 9: Future Direction and Challenges
Speakers: Ronald Garcia, Ph.D., and Eduardo Dolhun, M.D.
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