Presentation Title: Dermatology for All Skin Tones Jerald Hurdle, DO
Session Objectives:
1. Proper questions to ask while conducting a history and physical to acquire the proper diagnosis
2. How to choose the proper treatment for the correct diagnosis
3. Provide compassionate, culturally sensitive care for dermatological patients
Dr. Hurdle has no disclosures.
Presentation Title: Caring for Muslim patients Hwyda A. Arafat, MD, PhD, MSc. MEdL
Session Objectives:
1. Develop an understanding of how Muslims practice their faith and how that impacts managing their health and diseases
2. Differentiate between culture and religious practices to dispel some health-related misconceptions about Islam and Muslims
3. Identify dietary restrictions and hygienic practices in caring for Muslim patients in a hospital setting
4. Understanding Muslim practices relating to life and death rituals
Dr. Arafat has no disclosures.
Presentation Title: Indigenous North American approaches in Addiction Lewis Mehl Madrona, MD
Session Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to define two-eyed seeing, a conception of epistemology, in which both indigenous knowledge and contemporary neuroscience are equally valid and respectful of each other.
2. Participants will be able to list three ways in indigenous approaches to addiction using two-eyed seeing differ from conventional approaches.
3. Participants will be able to list three key concepts for how to successfully work within indigenous communities as a health care practitioner from outside the community.
Dr. Madrona has no disclosures.
Presentation Title: Successful Treatment of Deaf Patients: Communication is Key! Jane Hecker-Cain & Joshua Seal
Session Objectives:
1. Train their office staff to sensitively respond to calls for appointments including requesting the appropriate number and kind of ASL interpreters.
2. Train Medical Assistants to effectively communicate with deaf patients during an office visit by appropriately using sign language interpreter(s) and using alternative, visual methods to review medications.
3. Effectively communicate with Deaf patients during an office visit by appropriately using sign language interpreter(s) and supplementing written material with visuals whenever possible.
4. Understand the pros and cons of the three options for providing interpreting services: in-person, Video Remote and Video Relay.
Ms. Hecker-Cain has no disclosures.
Mr. Joshua Seal has no disclosures.