SAVE THE DATE! The SWVA Graduate Medical Education Consortium’s 20th Annual Head for the Hills CME Conference at Breaks Interstate Park is on October 17th-19th. About 75 regional primary care providers attend, in addition to residents and nurse practitioners.
To look at the updated schedule and our panel of speakers, click Head for the Hills 2019 Schedule.
A 2016 Study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that “only 5% of cancer patients accurately understood their prognoses well enough to make informed decisions about their care.” Take a look at how an internist received the delivery of his pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and why his reflections have led him to advocate for an improvement in communication skills. How the focus can be shifted from trying to “cure a disease to healing a person physically, emotionally and spiritually.”
To read the full article, click HERE.
“The vast majority of patients are not from the culture of biomedicine… Routine clinical encounters are often the times when they are being asked to make major lifestyle changes.” Namratha Kandula, MD delves into Arthur Kleinman’s ‘Patient Explanatory Model’ in this older, but relevant article for all healthcare professionals. Kleinman’s ‘Eight Questions’ will get the insight for how patient’s see themselves, their bodies, and their health.
To read the full article, click HERE.
Head for the Hills 2019 is fast approaching, and this year’s event will be held October 17-19 at the Breaks Interstate Park.
To register for this event, please click HERE.
College can feel like a lonely place, especially if you’re a student of color, a low-income individual, a first-generation youth — or all three. Educator Chitra Aiyar outlines how she encourages her students to cultivate spaces for other marginalized students to connect and help each other grow.
Click HERE, to view this inspiring TED Talk.
An editorial from the Roanoke Times explores the impact of student debt on rural America. This is especially relevant to the shortage of medical providers that Southwest Virginia and other rural communities face. To read the full article, click HERE.
One Care of Southwest Virginia will be hosting a prescription drug and heroin misuse forum in Big Stone Gap, VA on June 23 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. For more information and to register, please click HERE.
