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Published 
11/17/2009
Title: The Health Mentors Program: A Longitudinal Chronic Illness Mentorship Program

Resource Type: Faculty Development Materials

Primary Author: Lauren Collins, MD

Institution: Jefferson Medical College
Description: The Health Mentors Program has been designed to address the gap in chronic illness care education and to introduce students to the benefits of working on an interprofessional team. The Health Mentors curriculum was created to familiarize students, through experiential learning, with the following key elements pertaining to team-based, patient-centered care: placing chronic illness into life context, obtaining a comprehensive health history, access to care and systems barriers, patient expectati ....
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Published 
10/16/2009
Title: David Helechet: A Case Concerning the Benefit of Spiritual and Cultural Belief Assessment in Post Traumatic Recovery

Resource Type: Standardized Patient Case

Primary Author: Denise McKee, M.D.

Institution: Dunedin Medical School, New Zealand
Description: "David Helechet" (Developed for the University of Nevada School of Medicine Family Medicine Residency program in Reno, NV) is a two station Standardized Patient (SP) encounter which presents the student/resident with a before and after scenario portraying a Native American veteran suffering from a conversion disorder emanating from traumatic stress and the impact of ritual and ceremony on the health outcome of the patient. The first station presents an SP who is wheelchair bound following sever ....
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Published 
10/02/2009
Title: Surgical Wound Scar After Surgery on the Breast

Resource Type: Desktop Application

Primary Author: McGill Molson Medical Informatics Project

Institution: McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Description: Physical examination of the right axilla showing wound scar after surgery on the breast.
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Published 
09/23/2009
Title: A Quality Improvement Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents

Resource Type: Tutorial

Primary Author: Darcy Reed, MD, MPH

Institution: Mayo Medical School
Description: All residents graduating from The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited programs must demonstrate competence in practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) and systems-based practice (SBP). The principles and practice of quality improvement (QI) is a core component of these two competencies. We developed a 3-year, longitudinal QI curriculum to increase internal medicine residents' competency in PBLI and SBP, as well as to improve patient care through resident ....
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Published 
09/22/2009
Title: Sickle Cell Trait and Sickle Cell Disease: A Case Study

Resource Type: Exercise

Primary Author: Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD

Institution: Boston University School of Medicine
Description: This case is a classical example of an African American individual who is a heterozygous for sickle cell disease and who does not manifest any symptoms until he encounters extreme physical conditions. This case explores: The initial presentation of sickle cell symptoms in a heterozygote: The assembly of a pedigree and calculation of genetic risk for transmission of the mutation: The biochemical and genetic testing options that are available for diagnostic and pre-conception genetic testing in si ....
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