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. 2015 Mar 19:6:177-82.
doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S77894. eCollection 2015.

Exposing medical students to expanding populations

J J Lindenthal  1 , J A DeLisa  2 , G F Heinrich  3 , W S Calderón Gerstein  4
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Exposing medical students to expanding populations

J J Lindenthal et al. Adv Med Educ Pract. .

Abstract

Physicians are required to advocate for and counsel patients based on the best science and the interests of the individual while avoiding discrimination, ensuring equal access to health and mental services. Nonetheless, the communication gap between physician and patients has long been observed. To this end, the Institute for the Public Understanding of Health and Medicine of the Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School has expanded its efforts. This report describes two new programs: a legacy lecture series for medical students and an international "experience", in Huancayo, Peru, for medical students and faculty. The MiniMed outreach program, now in its ninth year and first described in this journal in 2012, was designed to empower the powerless to communicate more effectively with clinicians, thus improving both the effectiveness of the physician-patient relationship and health care outcomes. The approach of the two new programs and their effects on patients, particularly the underserved, and medical students and faculty, are outlined in the following article.

Keywords: Kintock Group; MiniMed program; Newark Renaissance House; equal access; role modeling; underserved populations.

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Figure 1
Sample of lectures provided to residents of Newark Renaissance House and the Kintock Group.
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Figure 2
Sample of lectures presented to medical faculty and medical students in Peru, by faculty in Huancayo, Peru.
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Figure 3
Questions provided to legacy lecturers.
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