Conference Workshops

Below you will find the list of workshops that will be presented at The 2020 NCEAS Annual Conference. These workshop sessions will provide an opportunity for medical practitioners, educators and community organizations to present their findings/papers and teachings to other leaders and educators in SDOH and health disparities. Advanced registration for the workshops is not required.

The Power of Terminology in Health Disparities Education: Determinants or Contributors?

Tuesday, April 28th 10:45am-12:15pm

Presenter(s):

Kara McGee, DMS, PA-C, MSPH, AAHIVS, Schenita Randolph, PhD, MPH, RN, CNE, AnnMarie Walton, PhD, MPH, RN, OCN, CHES

Learning objectives:

  1. Recognize how SDOH terminology impacts health professions’ experiences.
    2. Consider how SDOH terminology impacts communities that experience health disparities.
    3. Generate ideas for refining social determinants.

Using the Medical-Legal Partnership Model to Teach Law as a Social Determinant of Health

Tuesday, April 28th 10:45am-12:15pm

Presenter(s):

Vicki Girard, JD and Eileen Moore, MD

Learning objectives:

  1. Explain why law is a SDOH.
  2. Describe the MLP model and what it means to integrate lawyers into a healthcare team.
  3. Identify at least 3 SDOH needs that may benefit from legal advocacy.
  4. Assess whether patients in their own practices would benefit from an MLP.
  5. Advocate for the expansion of holistic healthcare to include access to justice.

Twenty-Years Since Cultural Humility – Where Are We Now? Highlighting Best Practices and Tools for Implementation

Tuesday, April 28th 3:00pm-4:30pm

Presenter(s):

Ashti Doobay-Persaud, MD

Learning objectives

  1. Understand the foundational differences between cultural humility and cultural competency training.
  2. Describe the limitations of cultural competency training and the strengths of cultural humility training.
  3. Apply and integrate the principles of cultural humility to new or existing curriculum.

A structured Simulation Based on Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health

Tuesday, April 28th 1:00pm-2:30pm

Presenter(s):

Tamzin J. Batteson, BSc, Lori Thuente, PhD, RN, Sarah S. Garber, PhD, and Samuel R. Bunting, BS

Learning objectives:

  1. Analyze the use of an educational framework as a foundation for simulation.
  2. Incorporate SDOH into simulation to teach students the skills needed to improve healthcare access, reduce health disparities, and address chronic disease.
  3. Assess student attainment of IPEC domains and competencies.
  4. Identify and target SDOH for home institution to use for student activities and faculty training.

Blended Learning of Human Dimensions Content in a Longitudinal Clinical Skills Course

Tuesday, April 28th 1:00pm-2:30pm

Presenter(s):

Kathy Eggleson, PhD, Matthew Holley, PhD, Beth Murray, PhD and Leanne Palmer, PhD candidate

Learning objectives:

  1. Discuss the importance of integrating SDOH into clinical courses.
  2. Describe the various teaching approaches used with medical students and learners.
  3. Develop strategies for incorporating SDOH into existing curriculum.
  4. Discuss various methods for assessing competency and integration of SDOH.

Community Engagement and Service Learning in Medical Schools: A Workshop for Faculty

Tuesday, April 28th 1:00pm-2:30pm

Presenter(s):

Joanna Michel, PhD and Jorge Girotti, PhD

Learning objectives

  1. State the core principles of community-engaged participatory research and practice.
  2. Discuss Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) to developing their own experiential curriculum in SDOH for medical students (health professionals).
  3. Sketch out a plan of action to integrate nonclinical community opportunities for students.

Social Workers Vital Role in Helping Patients to Manage the Social Determinants of Health

Tuesday, April 28th 10:45am-12:15pm

Presenter(s):

Pamela Lynch, MSW, LISW-S

Learning objectives:

  1. Recognize the critical role of Social Workers as experts on SDOH.
  2. Describe the Model for Social Work Practice in Primary Care.
  3. Discuss curriculum used in the Center for Outpatient Education, SDOH domain.
  4. Discuss efforts toward evaluation of the SDOH.
  5. Apply the Model to patient care situations and settings.

Community Engagement as an Approach to Teaching Social Determinants of Health

Monday, April 27th 1:30pm-3:00pm

Presenter(s):

Antonio Graham DO, Bisan Salhi, MD, PhD

Learning objectives:

  1. Explain the benefits of using community engaged learning as an approach to teach about SDOH.
  2. Design a SDOH course centered in community engaged learning.
  3. Apply evaluation and quality improvement tools and approaches to enhance community engaged educational programs.

Teaching Health Disparities using Case Narratives

Monday, April 27th 12:00pm-1:30pm

Presenter(s):

Ifeolorunbode (Bode) Adebambo MD and Adam Perzynski PhD

Learning objectives

  1. Identify the health disparities represented in the case narrative.
  2. Understand how the health disparities represented in this case affect seeking and providing health care.
  3. Identify their own attitudes towards health disparities using a self-reflection tool.

Medical-Legal Partnership – Providing Collaborative and Experiential Learning Opportunities for all levels of Medical Training in Clinics Serving Children and Teens

Monday, April 27th 12:00pm-1:30pm

Presenter(s):

Ana M. Caskin, MD

Learning objectives

  1. Articulate how MLP can be used to teach and train students in the health professions to address SDOH and how to implement this training in settings with or
    without an MLP.
  2. Identify health harming legal needs in their practice population.
  3. Discuss how interdisciplinary collaboration, including direct collaboration with lawyers, can facilitate solutions to SDOH.
  4. Generate ways to utilize inter-professional education and medical-legal partnership to teach.

Making Social and Structural Determinants of Health Visible: Best Practices for Bedside Teaching

Monday, April 27th 1:30pm-3:00pm

Presenter(s):

Amy E. Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS and Rachel E. Fabi, PhD Project team members not presenting: Nayla Khoury, MD, MPH; Simone Seward, MPH; Caitlin Nye, BSN, RN; Ann Botash, MD; Lauren J. Germain, PhD

Learning objectives:

  1. Reflect on your own experience, as a learner and/or educator, with regard to addressing social and structural determinants of health in clinical practice.
  2. Explain why health professions students may receive high-quality education regarding SDOH in the classroom, yet struggle to apply those lessons in clinical practice.
  3. Describe that challenges and barriers that clinician-educators face when teaching social determinants of health in clinical training spaces.
  4. Develop and apply strategies for overcoming these challenges in clinical education.

Using a Systems Perspective to Support Optimal and Equitable Outcomes for All

Monday, April 27th 12:00pm-1:30pm

Presenter(s):

Lindsay Rosenfeld, ScD, ScM and Jonathan Litt, MD, MPH, ScD

Learning objectives:

  1. Define developmental disability, racial and health equity, literacy environment and family engagement.
  2. Apply racial and health equity, literacy environment and family engagement in assessing NICU follow-up programs.
  3. Identify systems-change strategies that can be tested out in the programs and institutions they work in.

Addressing treatment of substance use disorder in underserved populations by integrating addiction medicine curriculum into Family Medicine Residency training

Tuesday, April 28th 10:45am-12:15pm

Presenter(s):

Daniel Berg, MD, Hanna Xu, MD, Andrew G. Birkhead, MD, Melissa Palma, MD, James Raspanti, DO

Learning objectives:

  1. Better appreciate the epidemiology of substance use disorder and uneven access to treatment.
  2. Leave with knowledge of common sequelae of substance use disorder so the participants can develop clinic specific screening tools and treatment plans for patients with substance use disorder.
  3. Have the tools in place to design and integrate addiction medicine into a primary care clinic and residency program by evaluating an exemplar of integration of addiction medicine into a residency curriculum.
  4. Describe the interdisciplinary components necessary to integrate addiction medicine into primary care clinic.
  5. Evaluate current and needed resources to successfully implement an addiction medicine curriculum into the current clinical and educational workflow.

Using Art and Literature to teach Social Determinants of Health: Implementing a Health Humanities Curriculum

Monday, April 27th 1:30pm-3:00pm

Presenter(s):

Kamna Balhara, MD, MA and Nathan Irvin, MD

Learning objectives:

  1. Develop an understanding of the utility of the humanities as a teaching vehicle for SDOH.
  2. Describe the foundational concepts of narrative medicine and visual thinking strategies as they
    apply to SDOH education.
  3. Evaluate artwork (visual, written, or otherwise) to identify themes to generate discussion around key concepts of SDOH.
  4. Apply concepts learned during the workshop to develop arts-based learning activities that 1)
    introduce foundational concepts of SDOH, 2) promote critical thinking on SDoH, and/or 3) generate reflection on the applicability of SDoH to specific environments.
  5. List resources that can be used in building arts-based curricula in SDOH education.

 Modified Design Thinking Model in SDOH Curriculum

Monday, April 27th 12:00pm-1:30pm

Presenter(s):

Asha Shajahan, MD, MHSA, Lakshmi Swaminathan, MD, MHSA, Ijeoma Nnodium, MD,  and Denise White Perkins, MD, PhD

Learning objectives

  1. Define the modified design thinking model for medical education.
  2. Design a modified design thinking curriculum to address SDOH and
    health disparities.
  3. Successfully facilitate small group reflective activities on socially controversial topics.
  4. Utilize trainee engagement in critical reflection activities as a professional activity to assess
    trainees’ capacity to provide compassionate care to vulnerable populations and address health
    and healthcare disparities.
  5. Identify through critical reflection the influence of personal biases and values of working with diverse individuals and constituencies, especially those living in poverty.
  6. Develop skills in demonstrating and facilitating interprofessional communication, patient/ family/ community centered care.
  7. Develop skills independently assessing and implementing treatment strategies for underserved patients.
  8. Become aware of health and social resources available in hospital service areas to improve health and competently refer patients in need of additional community resources.
  9. Become familiar with the concepts of non profit hospital’s community health needs assessment and how to incorporate it with SDOH learning.

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