Training medical students to be more compassionate
Residency Program Insider, February 12, 2016
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
Medical students at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport are being trained to better understand patients as individual people as part of the national Tell Me More initiative. The program trains students to personalize patients by conducting short interviews about their lives. The students then post three highlights about the patients in their rooms, to help other members of the patients’ healthcare team initiate conversations.
“[Tell Me More] will help us as students learn to look beyond the medical conditions and see a different side to our patients. I think patients will also enjoy sharing more about themselves. No one wants to feel defined by a disease or ailment,” said fourth-year student Lindsey Tassin.
Source: The Shreveport Times
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Residency Program Insider!
Related Products
-
Residency Program Alert
Residency program managers in all specialties are challenged to effectively manage their programs as accrediting agencies...
-
Residency Program Insider
Residency Program Connection is devoted to bringing residency directors and coordinators expert advice, best practice...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Complications from immobility by body system
- Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
- Coding Clinic reiterates guidelines for provider documentation
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- E-mailed
-
- Capturing start and stop times for infusions
- Q&A: Sepsis as a primary diagnosis
- Note from the instructor: Billing Outpatient Laboratory Services - TOB 131 vs. TOB 141
- Learn how to read an OP report
- Inpatient-only procedures: Accuracy helps avoid denials, ensure compliance
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Coding, billing, and documentation tips for teaching physicians, interns, residents, and students
- Coding Clinic reiterates guidelines for provider documentation
- Clinical Corner: Revisiting respiratory failure
- Clear up confusion surrounding observation services
- Searched
