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Preparing Compassionate Leaders: A Novel Approach in Medical Education
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
Session will explore strategies for inculcating compassionate leadership and developing advocacy skills to address human rights and social justice, based on a non-clinical medical elective implemented on the Texas/Mexico border.
Target Audience
This session is intended for educators associated with training programs involving medical students, public health students, graduate nursing students, social workers or any other population of learners interested in transformational learning in leadership and advocacy. While the elective is designed for health care professionals-in-training, components of the elective and strategies for implementation and evaluation are adaptable to other learners. Underlying principles of the elective are compassion, humility and respect where trainees become students of the community.
Learning Outcomes
Attendees will be able to discuss a theoretical perspective on leadership and empathy training in the context of medical education; describe components of a leadership and advocacy curriculum; develop tools for assessing impact; identify resources for leadership and advocacy training; develop a program logic model; consider and integrate logistics and caveats in program development and implementation.
Session Description
Field-tested methods for developing leadership and advocacy skills for social justice will be presented based on Community for Children, a non-clinical elective on the Texas/Mexico border, designed to help medical and public health trainees develop skills in advocacy and compassionate leadership. The program addresses the rights of the child and the immigrant; social determinants of health; cultural competency; the impact of poverty, immigration and violence; community-directed advocacy; and reflection on the role of physician as leader-advocate. Trainees work with international public health experts, promotoras (indigenous health leaders), migrant and refugee health experts, policymakers and families in Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley. They also partner with community-based organizations with the understanding that experts on needs and strengths of the community lie within the community. The program is innnovative, removing students from the comfort of standard clinical training and embedding them in the community. There is timeliness of focus on immigration.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Judith Ellen Livingston, MEd, MCHES, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio/Department of Pediatrics
Work Title
Instructor/Pediatric Projects
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Marsha Griffin, MD, UTHSCSA Regional Academic Health Center - Community for Children
Work Title
Director, Community for Children
Catherine Monserrat, PhD, UTHSCSA Regional Academic Health Center - Community for Children
Work Title
Consultant, Community for Children
Joellen Coryell, PhD, Texas State University at San Marcos
Work Title
Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Adult, Professional and Community Education