AHEC Scholars Education
Montana AHEC Scholars Approved Education (As of 2.22.19)
Course | Semester | Summary | Core Topic Area(s) |
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1 credit IPE Face to Face course—AHHS 450/550 Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (available to Missoula campus students) |
Fall (Meets twice monthly, every other Thursday starting 9/6/18) |
Introduces students to IP concepts to aide in their understanding of effective health care team functioning. |
Covers all Core Topic Areas |
1 credit IPE online course (available to any health profession student in the state) | Spring | Introduces students to IP concepts to aide in their understanding of effective health care team functioning. | Covers all Core Topic Areas |
1 credit Friday Medical Conference (available to any health profession student in the state) | Fall and Spring | This weekly presentation is streamed live to Skaggs 174. A variety of relevant health care topics are presented by local, regional and national speakers. | Covers all Core Topic Areas |
Course | Length | Summary | Core Topic Area(s) |
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100 Level Courses | |||
QI 101: Introduction to Healthcare Improvement |
1.25 Hours |
Health and Health Care Today, the Institute of Medicine's Aims for Improvement, Changing Systems with the Science of Improvement |
Practice Transformation; Social Determinants of Health |
QI 102: How to Improve with the Model for Improvement | 1.5 Hours | An Overview of the Model for Improvement, Setting an Aim, Choosing Measures, Developing Changes, Testing Changes | Practice Transformation |
QI 103: Testing and Measuring Changes with PDSA |
1.25 Hours |
How to Define Measures and Collect Data, How to Use Data for Improvement, How to Build Your Degree of Belief over Time | Practice Transformation |
QI 104: Interpreting Data: Run Charts, Control Charts, and Other Measurement Tools | 1.5 Hours | How to Display Data on a Run Chart, How to Learn from Run Charts and Control Charts, Histograms, Pareto Charts, and Scatter Plots, | Practice Transformation |
QI 105: Leading Quality Improvement | 1.25 Hours | The Four Phases of a Quality Improvement Project, Change Psychology and the Human Side of Quality Improvement, Working with Interdisciplinary Team Members | Practice Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
PS 101: Introduction to Patient Safety |
1.5 Hours |
Understanding Medical Error and Patient Safety, Responding to Error, A Call to Action — What YOU Can Do | Practice Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
PS 102: From Error to Harm | 1.0 Hour | The Swiss Cheese Model, A Closer Look at Error, A Closer Look at Harm | Practice Transformation |
PS 103: Human Factors and Safety | 1.0 Hour | Understanding the Science of Human Factors, Changes Based on Human Factors Design Principles, Using Technology to Mitigate the Impact of Error | Practice Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
PS 104: Teamwork and Communication in a Culture of Safety | 1.25 Hours | Why Are Teamwork and Communication Important?, How Can You Contribute to a Culture of Safety?, Basic Tools and Techniques for Effective Communication | Practice Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
PS 105: Responding to Adverse Events | 1.75 Hours | Responding to an Adverse Event: A Step-by-Step Approach, When and How to Apologize to Patients, The Impact of Adverse Events on Caregivers: The Second Victim, Learning from Errors Through Root Cause Analysis | Practice Transformation |
TA 101: Introduction to the Triple Aim for Populations | 2.0 Hours | Improving Population Health, Providing Better Care, Lowering Costs of Care | Interprofessional Education; Cultural Competency; Social Determinants of Health |
TA 102: Improving Health Equity | 2.0 Hours | Health disparities — what they are, why they occur, and how you can help reduce them in your local setting. | Interprofessional Education; Cultural Competency; Social Determinants of Health |
TA 103: Increasing Value and Reducing Waste at the Point of Care | 0.75 Hour | Distinguish between cost and value, and understand how both of these concepts relate to quality. | Practice Transformation |
L 101: Introduction to Health Care Leadership | 1.25 Hours | What Makes a Leader?, Practical Skills for Leading Teams, Strategies to Sustain Your Health Care Leadership Journey | Practice Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
PFC 101: Introduction to Patient-Centered Care | 1.5 Hours | Patient-Provider Partnerships for Health, Understanding Patients as People, Skills for Patient-Provider Partnerships | Interprofessional Education; Cultural Competency; Social Determinants of Health |
200 Level Courses | |||
QI 201: Planning for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Chang |
1.0 Hour
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You’ll learn about the theory of how change spreads, according to the foundational work of psychologist Kurt Lewin and sociologist Everett Rogers. | Practice Transformation |
QI 202: Addressing Small Problems to Build Safer, More Reliable Systems | 100 Hour | You’ll learn that organizations that successfully manage complexity have a deliberate approach to escalating the small concerns and suggestions of employees. | Practices Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
PS 201: Root Cause and Systems Analysis | 1.5 Hours | You’ll learn a step-by-step approach to completing an RCA after an error – and improving the process that led to the error. | Practices Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
PS 202: Building a Culture of Safety | 1.25 Hours | This course focuses on how organizations can create and foster a culture of safety. | Practice Transformation |
PS 203: Partnering to Heal: Teaming Up Against Healthcare-Associated Infections | 2.0 Hours | The dramatization is intended to increase awareness of the risks of healthcare-associat ed infections and the opportunities for preventing such infections. It is not intended to reflect common clinical care. | Practices Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
PS 204: Preventing Pressure Ulcers | 1.5 Hours | Explains the basics of pressure ulcers, and then spend the bulk of our time talking about how to prevent them and treat them. | Practice Transformation |
PFC 201: A Guide to Shadowing: Seeing Care Through the Eyes of Patients and Families | 0.5 Hour | You’ll learn five steps for using shadowing to better empathize with patients and families. | Practice Transformation |
PFC 202: Having the Conversation: Basic Skills for Conversations about End-of-Life Care | 1.5 Hours | Introduce students and health professionals to basic skills for having conversations with patients and their families about end-of-life care wishes. | Cultural Sensitivity; Practice Transformation |
Course | Length | Summary | Core Topic Area(s) |
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Module 1: Understanding Substance Use Disorders |
0.5 Hour |
Provides a basic introduction of the concepts of the disease model of addiction and the role of the reward system |
Current and Emerging Health Issues; Behavioral Health Integration |
Module 2: Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders | 0.5 Hour | Outlines the basic concepts of alcohol and drug use disorders. Standard drink sizes, screening for alcohol use disorders and an introduction to alcohol withdrawal management are discussed. | Current and Emerging Health Issues |
Module 3: The Opioid Epidemic | 0.75 Hour | Provides an overview of the history of opioid use with an overview of contributing factors to the current epidemic | Current and Emerging Health Issues |
Module 4: Medication and Behavioral Treatment of Substance Use Disorders | 0.75 Hour | Introduces evidence-based clinical practices of pharmacotherapy and behavioral treatments for substance use disorders. | Current and Emerging Health Issues; Behavioral Health Integration |
Developing a Behavioral Treatment Protocol in Conjunction with MAT | 0.75 Hour | Provides an overview of four principles that may play an important role in facilitating behavior change among substance dependent individuals | Current and Emerging Health Issues; Behavioral Health Integration |
Course | Length | Summary | Core Topic Area(s) |
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Is Obesity a Disease? The Health Professionals Point of View |
0.25 Hour |
Course is designed to help us understand the implications of obesity and how it’s impacting the world |
Current and Emerging Health Issues |
Does Early Behavior in Childhood Predict Adult Depression? | 0.25 Hour | Emotional and behavioral symptoms in childhood may be a bridge to and predictor of adult anxiety disorders and should be studied as potential early targets for disease prevention | Current and Emerging Health Issues; Behavioral Health; Practice Transformation |
Childhood Poverty Linked to Lower Cognition Later in Life? | 0.25 Hour | Socioeconomic hardship in childhood: a link with cognitive function in old age? | Current and Emerging Health Issues; Behavioral Health; Practice Transformation; Social Determinants |
Pediatric Immunization: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Parents | 1.0 Hour | The goals of this activity are to improve healthcare providers' skills in having productive conversations with parents about vaccinations. | Current and Emerging Health issues; Practice Transformation; Cultural Competency |
The Rise in Mental Illness ED Visits | 0.25 Hour | The goal of this activity is to provide medical news to primary care clinicians and other healthcare professionals in order to enhance patient care. | Current and Emerging Issue; Practice Transformation |
Course | Length | Summary | Core Topic Area(s) |
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Cognitive Decline and Dementia in Older Adults: MTGEC's Online Alzheimer's Disease Training Opportunity | 2.0 Hours | Link to Summary | Practice Transformation; Current and Emerging Health Issues; Behavioral Health Integration |
Screening for Cognitive Impairment: MTGEC's Online Alzheimer's Disease Training Opportunity | 2.0 Hours | Link to Summary | Practice Transformation; Current and Emerging Health Issues; Behavioral Health Integration |
Course | Length | Summary | Core Topic Area(s) |
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Enrollment Key: msuboze |
0.75 hours |
Web-based training simulation module to train faculty and staff in recognizing signs of mental health issues |
Behavioral Health Integration; Practice Transformation; Current and Emerging Issues |
Webinar | Length | Summary | Core Topic Area(s) |
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Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment | 0.75 Hour | Describe the Cultural Competency Continuum; the association between cultural competency and health equity; cultural competency organizational assessment; and use findings from assessment to advance health equity. | Cultural Competency |
Diversity and Cultural Competency in Public Health Settings - Basic Level | 1.0 Hour | Describe the demographic and epidemiological trends related to diverse populations conceptualize cultural competency and compare and contrast with diversity; and identify a framework to design culturally competent public health care services. | Cultural Competency |
5-Minute Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Cultural Competency | 0.75 Hour | Discuss how culture influences personal experience within the healthcare System including: varying cultural perspectives on health, pain & suffering. | Cultural Competency |
Best-Practices for Serving and Supporting Transgender Patients in Integrated Care Settings: Perspectives from the Nation’s Largest Medical System | 1.0 Hour | When providing healthcare to transgender individuals, providers should consider discrimination, violence, and lowered life expectancy as factors that transgender individuals may face. | Social Determinants of Health; Cultural Competency |
Improving Access to Transportation in Rural Communities | 1.0 Hour | The Rural Health Information Hub and the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis present the Rural Transportation Toolkit, which is designed to help rural communities improve access to transportation, an impact on healthcare access. | Social Determinants of Health |
Introduction to Cultural Competency and Title VI | 0.5 Hour | This training discusses the issue of cultural competency and the impact on delivery of public health and healthcare services and in order to be compliant with national legislation | Cultural Competency |
Behavioral Health Integration: Getting from Why to How | 1.0 Hour | Designed for health centers in Iowa with newly received mental health and substance use services funding from HRSA, this webinar provided foundational knowledge about behavioral health integration, including a discussion of the six levels of integration as well as critical elements involved in successful implementation of behavioral health integration | Behavioral Health Integration; Practice Transformation |
MT DPHHS: Acute and Chronic Disease Management in People with Substance Use Disorder | 0.5 Hour | A presentation to help better understand the ways that we can manage acute and chronic disease in patients who currently have or have had a history of substance use | Practice Transformation; Current and Emerging Health issues |
Preparing for Wildfire Season | 1.0 Hour | A respiratory approach to how to prepare for the wildfire season to help mitigate the effects that it has on us | Social Determinants; Current and Emerging Health |
Keeping Kids Healthy In School: Working with School Nurses and Resources to Help Patients Afford Care | 1.0 Hour | Highlights ways we can improve the learning environment for students with asthma | Practice Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
MUS: Winter Wellness: Maintaining Mental Health Through the Holidays | 1.0 Hour | The short, dark, cold days of winter can be challenging for our mental health, whether in the form of a dip in mood or energy, or battling depression. During this webinar, Dr. Ryan Niehus from MSU Counseling & Psychological Services will share some strategies to keep our spirits up during the winter months. | Behavioral Health; Social Determinants |
MUS: Nutrition for Healthy Aging | 1.0 Hour | Aging is a fact of life. But how well we age depends on a variety of factors, including our nutrition habits. Many of our nutrient needs are also significantly affected as a result of physiological changes that occur with growing older. | Current and Emerging Health; Social Determinants |
MUS: Pain Management | 1.0 Hour | Pain comes in many forms and intensities. For some it is a daily annoyance, for others, it can be debilitating. One thing is for certain: pain is a part of life and we all have to deal with it sooner or later. In this webinar, we’ll look at some common causes of pain, and talk about strategies and techniques to prevent pain, and/or minimize its impact on the quality of your life. | Practice Transformation; Current and Emerging Health |
MUS: Stress Management | 1.0 Hour | A webinar focused on managing stress in all areas of your life! | Behavioral Health |
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Integrated Care Settings | 1.5 Hours | Join us for a webinar to learn about prevention strategies, universal education and direct inquiry techniques, and best practices approaches related to Intimate Partner Violence. | Behavioral Health; Social Determinants; Practice Transformation; IP Education |
The Impact of Alcohol on Women’s Health | 1.5 Hours | Join this webinar to learn about the impact of alcohol and other drugs on women’s health and best practices to identify and intervene for substance use among women. | Practice Transformation; Current and Emerging Health |
Real-world strategies: Assessing for ACEs and brief interventions in an integrated care environment | 1.5 Hours | Join international experts from the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions and the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association for a live webinar that will equip providers and other healthcare professionals with quick, easy-to-use strategies to promote patient resiliency and implement organizational strategies to build a trauma-informed culture. Using these interventions within a trauma-informed integrated care culture can truly optimize patient health outcomes. | Social Determinants; Practice Transformation; Current and Emerging Issues |
Impact of ACEs and Adoption of Trauma-Informed Approaches in Integrated Settings | 1.5 Hours | Join the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions for this webinar to learn more about trauma and its impact, hear the case for adopting trauma-informed approaches, and take back to your organization a methodology for implementing trauma-informed care. | Social Determinants; Practice Transformation; Behavioral Health |
Conferences | Date, Time, Location | Contect | Core Topic Area(s) |
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Montana Health Care Association 2019 Midyear Convention |
March 24-27, 2019 Delta Hotels by Marriott Helena Colonial Helena, Montana 16.75 hours |
The Montana Health Care Association is a non-profit, member-driven professional association serving Montana's long term care facilities. Founded in 1962 and originally representing only nursing homes, MHCA has opened its membership to all organizations involved in long term care. We represent profit and non-profit, independent and corporate-owned, religious, fraternal and government-operaed facilities, as well as hospital-based facilities. Our members provide skilled nursing, personal care, assisted living, home health, respite and therapy services. | Interprofessional Education; Practice Transformation |
Montana Healthcare Foundation 2019 Montana Perinatal Behavioral Health Initiative Conference |
April 2-3, 2019 Great Northern Hotel Helena, Montana 1 2 hours |
This interactive two-day event will highlight the Montana Perinatal Behavioral Health Initiative grantee cohort’s accomplishments in 2018 and provide important resources and training for the second year of the initiative. | Behavioral Health Integration; Practice Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
Montana Hospital Association 2019 Health Summit |
April 3-5, 2019 Delta Hotels by Marriott Helena Colonial Helena, Montana 16 hours |
Montana Hospital Association is a leadership organization and principal advocate for health care facilities in Montana. MHA serves a diverse membership that provides the full spectrum of health care services, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, critical access hospitals, home health and hospice agencies, psychiatric facilities, physician groups, assisted living centers, senior housing and insurance services. | Interprofessional Education; Practice Transformation |
MCE Conferences: Infectious Diseases and Pulmonology for Primary Care |
June 14-16, 2019 Big Sky, Montana 12 hours |
This conference is designed to provide primary care clinicians with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues dealing with Infectious Diseases and Pulmonology, while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. | Practice Transformation; Interprofessional Education |
Symposia Medicus: Summer Conference on Acute Care of the Critically Ill Patient |
July 24-27, 2019 Big Sky, Montana 18 hours |
Our Summer Conference on Acute Care of the Critically Ill Patient is designed to provide emergency physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, PAs, as well as out-of-hospital providers with an extensive scope of knowledge and expertise in the evaluation and treatment of acute medical conditions. | Interprofessional Education; Practice Transformation |
Montana Hospital Association 2019 Fall Convention & Trade Show |
September 18-20, 2019 Double Tree by Hilton & Northern Hotel ~ Downtown Billings, Montana 16 hours |
The MHA Annual Fall Convention & Trade Show is Montana’s largest gathering of healthcare professionals. The premier event attracts rural health leaders from across the state and surrounding areas committed to learning and engaging in an ever-changing industry landscape. | Interprofessional Education; Practice Transformation |
Title | Length | Summary | Core Topic Area(s) |
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Ted Radio Hour: Getting Better | 1.0 Hour | This episode, TED speakers explore new ways to think about disease, diagnosis, and the delicate art of healing | Current and Emerging Health Issues; Practice Transformation |
Ted Radio Hour: Dying Well | 1.0 Hour | Is there a way to talk about death candidly, without fear…and even with humor? How can we best prepare for it with those we love? This episode, TED speakers explore the beauty of life and death. | Current and Emerging Health Issues |
Ted Radio Hour: Confronting Stigma | 1.0 Hour | Why do we harshly judge certain behaviors or conditions, making it harder to talk honestly about them? This hour, TED speakers confront stigmas around addiction, depression, HIV and sex work. | Behavioral Health; Current and Emerging Health Issues; Practice Transformation |
Ted Radio Hour: Rethinking Medicine | 1.0 Hour | This hour, TED speakers share their visions for new ways to understand medicine. | Practice Transformation |
Ted Radio Hour: Maslow’s Human Needs | 1.0 Hour | Humans need food, sleep, safety, love, purpose. Psychologist Abraham Maslow ordered our needs into a hierarchy. This week, TED speakers explore that spectrum of need, from primal to profound. | Social Determinants of Health |
Ted Radio Hour: Hardwired | 1.0 Hour | This hour, TED speakers on how genes and experience collaborate — and compete — to make us who we are. | Current and Emerging Health Issues; Behavioral Health; Practice Transformation |
Ted Radio Hour: Fighting Cancer | 1.0 Hour | In this hour, TED speakers reframe not only how we treat cancer, but how we live with it and survive it. | Behavioral Health; Practice Transformation |
Ted Radio Hour: Headspace | 1.0 Hour | Some of our most powerful feelings — stress, depression, despair — are the hardest to understand. This hour, TED speakers challenge assumptions about emotion, disquiet and the essence of well-being. | Behavioral Health; Current and Emerging Issues; Practice Transformation |
Ted Radio Hour: The Food We Eat | 1.0 Hour | Food is more than nourishment. It's a source of pleasure — and guilt — and an agent of change. | Current and Emerging Health Issues |
Ted Radio Hour: Growing Up | 1.0 Hour | What makes us who we are? How do parents mold children into who they are? In this hour, TED speakers reflect on how our upbringing shapes us. | Behavioral Health Integration; Social Determinants of Health |
Ted Radio Hour: The Fountain of Youth | 1.0 Hour | Aging is inevitable. We can slow it down a little, but could we ever bring it to a grinding halt? In this episode, TED speakers explore how we all might live longer and even better lives. | Social Determinants of Health |
The Future of Healthcare: Solving Our Sugar Problem: Dr. Jim Surrell | 1.0 Hour | On This Episode, Dr. Jim Surrell joins us to discuss how we can solve the sugar and obesity problems in America. Doc is a board-certified colorectal surgeon with over 20 years of practicing experience. His interests in nutrition and weight loss led him to write the SOS (Stop Only Sugar) Diet, which is an incredible resource to learn how to become healthier by limiting the amount of sugar we eat. | Current and Emerging Health Issues |
The Future of Healthcare: The Psychology of Our Technology: Max Stossel | 1.0 Hour | In this episode Nathan and Max discuss how technology and social media are using our biology and psychology to drive us to action. Because of how these companies are structured, many of them are not working for the best interest of humans. Max believes that we have the power to change that and use the power of technology and social media to achieve a higher level of health and life fulfillment. | Current and Emerging Health Issues |
The Future of Healthcare: The Brain and How Life Determines Mental Health: Dr. Robert Paul | 1.0 Hour | On this episode, Dr. Robert Paul shares his insights into the cutting edge research of neuropsychology and the new frontier of treating mental health. We not only discuss his past experiences while working as a clinical neuropsychologist, but also his current research into the workings of our deep brain and how diseases affect it. | Practice Transformation; Behavioral Health; Current and Emerging Health Issues |
Ted Radio Hour: Beyond Tolerance | 1.0 Hour | We throw around the word ‘tolerance’ a lot – especially in the last year as politics has grown even more polarized. But how can we push past mere tolerance to true understanding and empathy? Arthur Brooks tackles the question of how liberals and conservatives can work together – and why it’s so crucial. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers gives some powerful advice on how to conquer our unconscious biases. | Cultural Competency; Practice Transformation; Current and Emerging Issues |
Ted Radio Hour: Bias and Perception | 1.0 Hour | How does bias distort our thinking, our listening, our beliefs... and even our search results? How can we fight it? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the unconscious biases that shape us. | Cultural Competency; Practice Transformation |
Ted Radio Hour: What Makes Us...Us | 1.0 Hour | For thousands of years, we've searched to answer the question: Who are we? Today, science has brought us closer than ever to the answer. This hour, TED speakers share ideas on what makes us ... us. | Social Determinants of Health; Current and Emerging |
Title | Length | Summary | Core Topic Area(s) |
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Change the Odds of Health: Dr. Anthony Ilton | 0.25 Hour | Using data to study how and when zip codes become more important than genetic codes when it comes to people's health | Social Determinants of Health |
Is the Obesity Crisis Hiding a Bigger Problem: Dr. Peter Attia | 0.25 Hour | Could the precursors to diabetes cause obesity, and not the other way around? A look at how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong medical war. | Current and Emerging Health Issues |
A Smarter, More Precise Way to Think About Public Health: Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann | 0.25 Hour | Using precision public health -- an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools -- to solve the world's most difficult medical problems. | Social Determinants of Health |
The Agony of Opioid Withdrawal- and What Doctors Should Tell Patients About It: Travis Rieder, PhD | 0.25 Hour | The United States accounts for five percent of the world's population but consumes almost 70 percent of the total global opioid supply, creating an epidemic that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths each year. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? | Current and Emerging Health Issues |
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris | 0.25 Hour | Explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. | Behavioral Health Integration; Social Determinants of Health |
How Data is Helping Us Unravel the Mysteries of the Brain: Steve McCarroll, PhD | 0.25 Hour | Wants to make an atlas of all the cells in the human body so that we can understand in precise detail how specific genes work, especially in the brain, and describes how this research could lead to new ways of treating mental illnesses like schizophrenia. | Behavioral Health Integration; Current and Emerging Health Issues |
What Makes Us Get Sick Look Upstream: Dr. Rischi Manchanda | 0.25 Hour | His job isn’t just about treating a patient’s symptoms, but about getting to the root cause of what is making them ill—the “upstream" factors like a poor diet, a stressful job, a lack of fresh air. | Social Determinants of Health |
How to Not Be Ignorant About the World: Hans and Ola Rosling | 0.25 Hour | Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data, demonstrates that you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong about what you think you know. | Social Determinants of Health |
How do we heal medicine?: Dr. Atul Gawande | 0.25 Hour | Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine -- with fewer cowboys and more pit crews. | Practice Transformation |
His and hers…healthcare: Dr. Paula Johnson | 0.25 Hour | Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to the cellular level. Yet too often, research and medicine ignore this insight -- and the often startlingly different ways in which the two sexes respond to disease or treatment. As pioneering doctor Paula Johnson describes in this thought-provoking talk, lumping everyone in together means we essentially leave women's health to chance. It's time to rethink. | Practice Transformation |
Your Brain is more than a bag of chemicals: David Anderson | 0.25 Hour | Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but neurobiologist David Anderson has a more nuanced view of how the brain functions. He shares new research that could lead to targeted psychiatric medications -- that work better and avoid side effects. How's he doing it? For a start, by making a bunch of fruit flies angry. | Practice Transformation; Current and Emerging Health Issues |
The power of vulnerability: Brene Brown | 0.25 Hour | Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. | Practice Transformation |
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Netflix Documentary: End Game | 0.75 hour | Netflix's latest documentary explores the end-of-life support system provided by doctors, nurses, and hospice professionals | Practice Transformation |
The Waiting Room | 1.5 Hours | This documentary follows the staff and patients at Highland Hospital, a “safety net” hospital in Oakland, Calif., that serves low-income and often uninsured patients. The documentary focuses on the issues in serving poorer patients, both financial and medical. | Social Determinants of Health; Practice Transformation |