Restoring Patient Trust through a Health Justice Approach
Overview
This module is entitled Restoring Patient Trust through a Health Justice Approach. You will get the opportunity to listen to Dr. Philip Alberti, the founding director for the Center for Health Justice at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
After completing the module, you will be able to understand the health justice framework as posed by the AAMC, and describe how this framework is the most productive approach to achieve health and healthcare equity on the community and patient level. Lastly, you will be able to understand the importance of the principles of trustworthiness and how this can transfer into clinical relationships.
Commercial Support
This accredited CE activity was supported by an independent medical education grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Target Audience
This training targets Primary Care Practitioners (PCPs) in training or in practice who work in family practice or internal medicine as registered nurses (RN), nurse practitioners (NP), physician assistants (PA), medical doctors (MD), osteopathic medicine doctors (DO) or in the field of dentistry. This includes the pipeline of health professions students in clinical rotations.
Philip Alberti, PhD
Philip Alberti, PhD, founded the AAMC Center for Health Justice as the natural next step in a career focused on eliminating inequities in health and health care. He also currently serves as the AAMC’s senior director of health equity research and policy. His previous roles included leading health equity research and evaluation efforts alongside community partners in New York City for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and working as a graduate research assistant with Columbia University and the National Center for Children in Poverty.
Maranda C. Ward, Ed.D, MPH
Maranda C. Ward, Ed.D, MPH, is an Assistant Professor and Director of Equity in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Ward is an expert in advancing anti-racism efforts within health sciences education and in designing curricula to enable students and faculty to competently promote health and racial equity in practice. Her research focuses on JEDI and antiracism educational interventions as well as stakeholder-engaged community-focused studies on HIV, Black women's health, and youth identity. As a member of the DC Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR), she is the principal investigator on "Two in One: HIV and COVID Screening & Testing Model."
We would like to acknowledge the significant contributions of Nikhil Kalita, BS and Sadhana Matheswaran for their roles in researching, compiling, and editing content for this 9-part course series.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE PharmacistThe George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 1.00 Completion
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