Vulnerable Patients
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
The aim of this session is to familiarize learners to poverty tool and various frameworks to help identify patients that may be vulnerable in some way. Understand the special needs of vulnerable groups related to disparities and inequities in seeking and receiving care. (e.g. Aboriginals, recent immigrants, same-sex relationships, transgendered, marginally housed, disabled, age extremes).

Curriculum Block

Clerkship / Family Medicine Rotation
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Tags

CanMEDS Roles
Health Advocate Identify the determinants of health of the populations that they serve; Promote the health of individual patients, communities and populations. Respond to individual patient health needs and issues as part of patient care;
Curriculum Block
Clerkship Family Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Family medicine Indigenous Health
Longitudinal Discipline
Indigenous Health Priority Groups
MCC Presentations
Concepts of Health and Its Determinants Indigenous Health Providing anti-oppressive health care
McMaster Program Competencies
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. 4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds 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 5.2 Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others 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. 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 6.8 Participate in identifying system-level gaps and errors and, where appropriate, identify, implement or participate in potential system-level solutions
MeSH
Black or African American [M01.686.477.625.594.594] Emigrants and Immigrants [M01.189] Health Status Disparities [N06.850.505.400.425.675] Homeless Persons [M01.325] Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375] Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375] Minority Health [N01.400.512] Poverty [N01.824.600] Sexual and Gender Minorities [M01.270.988] Transgender Persons [M01.270.988.750]