Curriculum Block

Objectives

• Analyze the influence of gender on health concerns and health care provision.
• Demonstrate skills for critical intersectional analysis.
• Analyze and critically reflect on how the impact of physician power and privilege may contribute to disparities through biased care.
• Recommend responses to key social and cultural factors that lead to poor health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
• Plan socially-just courses of action in order to respond to the diverse factors that intersect and overlap to influence the health of the individuals, families and communities.

Assessments

• End of MF 4

• MF 3 Reflection

• MF 3

Tags

Part 3 Professional Competencies 3 Week 3 Part 3 Week 3 Concepts of Health and Its Determinants Gender and Sexuality Providing anti-oppressive health care Social, Cultural and Humanistic Dimensions of Health 1.9 Provide health care services to patients, families, and communities aimed at preventing health problems or maintaining health 2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations 2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care. 3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care 4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds 4.3 Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics 4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses 5.4 Demonstrate respect for patient confidentiality, privacy and autonomy 5.5 Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including all dimensions of diversity such as those that are included in human rights legislation and federal and provincial law. 5.6 Demonstrate a critical understanding of personal, professional and institutional power and privilege and utilize anti-oppressive practice to create patient experiences where marginalization and oppression are minimized. 5.7 Demonstrate the application of ethical principles to commonly encountered ethical issues such as the provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent, and including compliance with relevant laws, policies, and regulations 5.8 Balance personal values and beliefs with professional and societal ethics 6.1 Understand the systems of healthcare, including federal, provincial, municipal and local, and the influences they have on the health of individuals and populations 6.2 Identify aspects of the healthcare system that serve as barriers and enablers of providing healthcare to and optimizing the health of patients and the population 6.3 Advocate for quality patient care and optimal patient care systems that support patient- and population-centred care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable 6.4 Apply concepts of global health and social medicine to the health of individual patients and populations using the ecology, economy, equity framework 6.8 Participate in identifying system-level gaps and errors and, where appropriate, identify, implement or participate in potential system-level solutions 7.2 Use the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served 8.4 Demonstrate awareness and acceptance of different points of view Gender Identity [F01.393.446.250] Healthcare Disparities [N05.300.493] Homosexuality [F01.145.802.975.500] Minority Groups [I01.880.853.300] Minority Health [N01.400.512] Sexual and Gender Minorities [M01.270.988] Sexuality [F01.145.802.975] Social Determinants of Health [N01.400.675]