Trauma Informed Care
Activity
PC Session
PC Session
This session will introduce the concepts of trauma and trauma-informed care to medical students. This session emphasizes the importance of identifying trauma and the impact on health. It builds on and extends the skills learned in the communication domain and reinforces concepts from the session on narrative medicine by emphasizing the importance of respectful and effective interactions with trauma survivors and helping students to appreciate the healing power in these interactions.
Curriculum Block
Part 5 / Professional Competencies IF / Week 8
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
General Objectives
- Identify the diverse factors (ie. sociocultural, psychological, institutional, economic, occupational, environmental, technological, legal, political and spiritual) that contribute to the systemic marginalization of vulnerable populations and impact health and health care delivery.
- Analyze the influence of gender on health concerns and health care provision.
- Demonstrate an awareness of key health challenges faced by immigrants and refugees.
- Describe approaches and challenges to working with different vulnerable populations to improve their health. (ex. people experiencing homelessness; people at extremes of the age continuum).
- 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
PC Final Student Assessment
PC Interim Student Assessment
Tags
AFMC Entrustable Professional Activities
9. Communicate in difficult situations
AFMC National Clinical Skills
Communication Skills and Medical Interviewing
Curriculum Block
Part 5
Professional Competencies IF
Week 8
Curriculum Week
IF
Week 8
Discipline
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Adult Abuse / Intimate Partner Abuse
Child Abuse
Providing anti-oppressive health care
Trauma
McMaster Professional Competency
Effective Communication
Population Health, Health Equity and Determinants of Health
Professionalism and Self-Awareness
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
1.8 Provide appropriate referral of patients including ensuring continuity of care throughout transitions between providers or settings, and following up on patient progress and outcomes
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.
4.3 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
5.2 Demonstrate compassion, integrity, and respect for others
MeSH
Adult Survivors of Child Abuse [M01.860.300.500]
Adult Survivors of Child Adverse Events [M01.860.300]
Professional Competence [I02.399.630]
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic [F03.080.931.500]
Stress Disorders, Traumatic [F03.080.931]
Stress, Psychological [F01.145.126.990]
Substance-Related Disorders [F03.900]
Survivors [M01.860]
