1. Building Patient-Physician Trust: A Medical Student Perspective
- Author
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Jennifer S. Chiang, Lena K. Egbert, Anthony E. Kilgore, Cameron M. Thiele, C. Johnson, Nikita Gupta, and Joshua I. Daum
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Medical psychology ,Students, Medical ,020205 medical informatics ,education ,02 engineering and technology ,Patient Advocacy ,Trust ,Patient advocacy ,Education ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Patient-Centered Care ,Physicians ,Health care ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Humans ,Mental Competency ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Curriculum ,Health policy ,Quality of Health Care ,Medical education ,Physician-Patient Relations ,Education, Medical ,Cultural humility ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,General Medicine ,Cultural Diversity ,Problem-Based Learning ,Health equity ,Leadership ,Public trust ,Psychology ,business ,Decision Making, Shared ,Delivery of Health Care - Abstract
Public trust in physicians has declined over the last 50 years. Future physicians will need to mend the patient-physician trust relationship. In conjunction with the American Medical Association's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative, the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine implemented the Science of Health Care Delivery (SHCD) curriculum-a 4-year curriculum that emphasizes interdisciplinary training across population-centered care; person-centered care; team-based care; high-value care; leadership; and health policy, economics, and technology-in 2015. In this medical student perspective, the authors highlight how the SHCD curriculum has the potential to address issues that have eroded patient-physician trust. The curriculum reaches this aim through didactic and/or experiential teachings in health equity, cultural humility and competence, shared decision making, patient advocacy, and safety and quality of care. It is the authors' hope that novel medical education programs such as the SHCD curriculum will allow the nation's future physicians to own their role in rebuilding and fostering public trust in physicians and the health care system.
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- 2020