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Justice And Equity In Diabetes Care: An Interprofessional Education Opportunity, Lisa M. Taylor, Adreanne Cordova, Robin Gatlin

HSC Education Days

The purpose of this presentation is to report on the development, implementation, and evaluation of this seminar/IPE opportunity, “Justice and Equity in Diabetes Care.” We will address the process to refine this seminar to increase registration across the HSC. During the inaugural seminar:

- Participants examined and biases embedded in contemporary U.S. culture with an emphasis on how these structures impact health care and health outcomes of individuals, families, communities, and populations, specifically relating to diabetes care and outcomes.

- Participants explored their roles as professional healthcare providers in advocating for social justice and equity and develop skills to begin …

Vertical Mentoring In Established Multi-Year Communities: Leveraging Student Experience, Hannah Herring, Kristin Strosnider, Abigale Aldrich, Elena Florez-Aguirre, Ann Morrison

HSC Education Days

Background: Learning Communities (LC) are an established mechanism for student advisement and support in medical schools in the United States. A recent survey* of LC programs in 27 US medical schools identified intentionally connecting students across class years as a feature of many LCs. The UNM School of Medicine LC program, launched in 2015, has seen the benefits of providing vertical mentoring and has increasingly scheduled activities where students interact with learners from other classes at key points throughout the curriculum. However, as the challenges students face change between didactic and clinical learning, it is important to understand the best …

Applying Generative Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Health Professions Education, Amy Bachyrycz, Seth Daly, Sharon Schaaf, Kendall Rogers, John Williams

HSC Education Days

No abstract provided.

Mind The Gap: Addressing The Deficit In Curriculum Addressing Rn-Md Communication, Amanda E. Dunn, Ann E. Morrison, David G. Parajon, Allison M. Phillips

HSC Education Days

Background

Effective communication among physicians and registered nurses is vital to ensure high quality healthcare delivery, yet there is limited literature available to guide curriculum development on this topic. The University of New Mexico School of Medicine (SOM) and College of Nursing (CON) sought to address this gap by creating an innovative event to jointly discuss MD-RN communication.

Design

3rd level RN students and 4th year MD students held a 2-hour session that included free writing, discussion of two cases of poor MD-RN communication during hospital discharge leading to adverse outcomes, a didactic on the SBAR communication tool, small group …

Tech@Hslic: Virtual Reality, 3d Printing, Anatomage Virtual Anatomy Table, Rachel Howarth, Jonathan Seyfried

HSC Education Days

Here at HSLIC we offer three emerging technology tools: Virtual Reality, 3D Printing, and the Anatomage Virtual Anatomy Table. We will present use cases that highlight the pedagogical value of these tools for all health sciences programs of study.

In addition to the VR Lab, the library has six Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets that anyone can check out for three days at a time. These are preloaded with apps for studying anatomy, practicing intubation, improving dexterity (in an OT context), and relieving stress (meditation, etc.). Faculty can also request that the Library purchase apps that might be useful for …

Designing Curriculum With The Affective Context Learning Theory: Using Stories To Explore Fact And Feeling In Geriatric Psychiatry, Wayles Haynes, Jeremy Miller, Christopher Abbott

HSC Education Days

Geriatric psychiatry requires physicians to treat psychiatrically, medically, and ethically complex patients while navigating limited resources, ageism, and complex emotions. The number of geriatric psychiatry fellows is declining while the target patient demographic grows. One proposal to address the mismatch is to provide residents with earlier, quality exposure to geriatric psychiatry. To shift perspectives and spark interest, curriculum was created using the affective context theory of learning and push pull learning design model targeting both cognitive and affective learning. This model addresses learner specific concerns, provides resources for motivated learners, and employs storytelling to create emotionally impactful experiences. The eight-class …

Empowering Student Wellness: Our Approach At The Health Sciences Library, Varina Kosovich, Kristin Proctor

HSC Education Days

Health sciences students experience mental health issues, demoralization, and burnout at greater rates compared to other students and often do not report these issues for fear of marginalization. Additionally, many neurodiverse students struggle in higher education due to environments that are not accessible. Considering these information points, authors surveyed space in the library to determine an appropriate area to create and pilot the Wellness Room. Funding was established through an internal grant and a study room was approved for use in the pilot. Resources were provided with autonomous space, feminist ethics of care, and trauma informed care tenets.

Feedback from …

What's Right With You? Using Strength-Based Approaches To Empower Patients, Communities, And Learners, Luke Sanchez, Derek Lin, Anthony Fleg

HSC Education Days

A deficits model is the cornerstone for the health professions education, practice and scholarship. With a focus on diseases, deficits, addictions, social risk factors, this approach has a risk of disempowering patients, communities, and learners. A strength-based approach instead focuses on what people and communities do well – resources, skills, strengths, resilience, etc. – with intention of building upon these to improve health. Strength-based approaches are critical for decolonization and for undoing racism. This session, led by HSC students, presents a mixture of data and personal experience to elucidate the importance of strength-based approaches to health, with guidance on how …

Role Of Mentorship In Recruiting Community College Students Into Health Professions Programs, Annslee Lowe, Amy Clithero-Eridon, Cameron Crandall, Marlene P. Ballejos

HSC Education Days

BACKGROUND:

The social mission of health professional schools is generally to ensure a diverse cadre of providers is trained to care for populations, with particular attention paid to the delivery of primary care in underserved areas. Students who attend community college (CC) before matriculating to a health professional program typically bring diversity and concordance with local population demographics. However, CC students face more challenges than traditional students in obtaining proper resources and support to prepare for graduate programs, including mentorship. This study aimed to identify challenges faced by CC students, such as financial status, cultural backgrounds, and fear of medical …

Nurse Intern Program: An Innovative Solution For Transition To Practice, Maggie Faber, Donna Winn

HSC Education Days

The healthcare industry is experiencing staffing shortages and nursing programs have finite clinical resources to support and train healthcare professionals. One solution is the implementation of a Nurse Internship program. The University of New Mexico College of Nursing and the University of New Mexico Hospital partnered to develop an innovative program designed to support student learning and hospital staffing through a paid internship. The program has been successful for over 10 years, and the model has been expanded to other local hospitals. Both students and participating hospitals benefit from the program. Students experience clinical practice, develop leadership and communication skills, …

Integrating Dei Into The Som Quantitative Medicine Block, Jonathan Eldredge, Jens Langsjoen

HSC Education Days

No abstract provided.

Unm College Of Nursing Innovative Carousel Clinical Model, Allison Phillips, Leeanna Vargas, Crystal Sanchez, April Tafoya

HSC Education Days

Introduction: The innovative restructuring of the UNM College of Nursing Undergraduate clinical placements across various specialties is a good reflection of our colleges' commitment to meeting the needs of our students. Based on cohorts' performance on standardized exams administered through the Health Education Systems Inc (HESI), clinical courses were changed to allow every student to take a didactic course and clinical hours in the specialty areas previously limited to a select number of students.

Methods: The cohort data revealed lower performances on HESI exams within the specialty areas of behavioral health, pediatrics, community, and maternity. The traditional upper-level clinical courses …

Hsc Connects Newsletter - February 9, 2024, Unm Hsc Communications

HSC Connects Newsletters

Weekly newsletter of the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Empowering Student Wellness: Our Approach At The Health Sciences Library, Varina Kosovich

Posters and Presentations

Health sciences students experience mental health issues, demoralization, and burnout at greater rates compared to other students and often do not report these issues for fear of marginalization. Additionally, many neurodiverse students struggle in higher education due to environments that are not accessible. Considering these information points, authors surveyed space in the library to determine an appropriate area to create and pilot the Wellness Room. Funding was established through an internal grant and a study room was approved for use in the pilot. Resources were provided with autonomous space, feminist ethics of care, and trauma informed care tenets. Feedback from …

Creation Of A Novel Near-Peer Mentorship Program For And By Combined Ba-Md Program Students, Corrina Klein, Alexus Trujillo, Samantha Dewees, Marlene Ballejos

HSC Education Days

Now more than ever, medical schools must strengthen the tools they provide for historically underrepresented students to foster a diverse physician workforce. Near-peer mentorship is a powerful tool that promotes resilience, reduces stress, increases academic accountability, and eases the transition into medical school, with students historically underrepresented in medicine benefiting most. We created a near-peer mentorship program matching matriculating first-year Combined Baccalaureate/Medical Degree (BA/MD) program students with rising second- and third-year BA/MD medical students. We surveyed students about their interests, goals, and backgrounds to create matches, and held a mentorship training outlining expectations for discussing sensitive topics, accountability, and relationship …

The Effectiveness Of Various Online Continuing Education Formats For Improving Knowledge Of Clinical Documentation, Sara L. Nottingham

HSC Education Days

Context: Clinical documentation is a professional responsibility of healthcare providers, including athletic trainers (ATs). Previous research has identified that ATs desire continuing education (CE) opportunities specific to documentation. We investigated the effectiveness of different online CE formats to improve ATs’ knowledge of clinical documentation.

Methods: We used a sequential explanatory mixed-methods randomized controlled trial design. After recruiting 18,981 practicing ATs, interested participants were randomly enrolled into a group: online personalized learning platform that included videos, presentations, case studies, documents, and knowledge checks (PLP, n=39), passive online reading list (PAS, n=44), or control without resources (CON, n=77)]. Baseline and follow-up knowledge …

Lessons Learned From The Design And Implementation Of A Learner And Location Focused Deij Curriculum For A Psychiatry Residency Program, Wayles Haynes, Samira Khalil, Lindsay Smart

HSC Education Days

The 2022 ACGME survey found that learners perceived a residency-wide lack of DEIJ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice) education reflecting the program’s historic de-prioritization for DEIJ education. This gap in conjunction with increasing concern about the effects of DEIJ issues on clinical care and the learning environment inspired a new curriculum. An interprofessional and inter-hierarchical team created a learner and location focused resident DEIJ curriculum. A year-long investigation of learner specific needs was conducted through a series of zoom meetings discussing content, organization, and teaching methods. Learners reviewed asynchronous material (podcasts, videos, and articles) then provided feedback through in-class discussion …

Teaching What Matters: Addressing Social Determinants Of Health In Clinical Practice, N Marian Salas, Suman Pal

HSC Education Days

Social determinants of health (SD0H) account for 50-80% of healthcare outcomes. Despite this, many residents receive minimal training in how to address the negative social determinants of health in their patient populations. We developed a 1.5-hour workshop integrated into GME orientation for all the 167 incoming interns of our institution. We used case-based learning as a proven effective method for both improving knowledge gain and skills acquisition outcomes. Using the input of multiple subject matter experts, we developed four cases from different regions of the state that learners worked through in facilitated small groups supported by intermittent check-ins with the …

Internal Medicine Resident Outcomes After Initiation Of Block Scheduling, Annashia Shera, Michael Louie, Raymond G. Murphy

HSC Education Days

The height of the COVID pandemic took a considerable toll on all healthcare workers and heavily on resident physicians. The long work hours and subsequent effect on mental health required a change to the system not only for wellness but also education. This especially affected the quality of the resident outpatient experience due to the competing high demands of inpatient service. Feedback from residents propelled the decision to implement block scheduling at the University of New Mexico Internal Medicine Residency program in 2021. In this presentation, we share the outcomes of this change in terms of duty hours, wellness, and …

02-08-2024 Hsc Committee Minutes, Helen Maestas

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

02-08-2024 HSC Committee Minutes

Festa De Carnaval, Paulo Dutra, Pilar Leto, Frank Leto, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Join Bate Papo for a lightning talk by Dr. Paulo Dutra followed by a samba workshop with live percussion by Pilar and Frank Leto!

Hsc Committee Agenda-February 8, 2024, Helen Maestas

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

No abstract provided.

Unm Hslic Organizational Chart 2024, Sally Bowler-Hill

HSLIC Organizational Charts

No abstract provided.

Hsc Connects Newsletter - February 1, 2024, Unm Hsc Communications

HSC Connects Newsletters

Weekly newsletter of the UNM Health Sciences Center.

Comparison Of Vipassana Meditation With Other Mindfulness Traditions In The Response To Experimentally Induced Pain, Timothy Ian Vandiver

Psychology ETDs

This study compared various mindfulness meditators with a meditation-naïve control group on various measures of pain tolerance and response. My primary hypothesis was that meditators would show greater pain tolerance than non-meditators and that they would also show greater parasympathetic nervous system activation in response to experimentally induced pain. The results were mixed, with meditators showing no greater increase in pain tolerance post-baseline. Differences in nervous system function between the two groups were also difficult to interpret.

Another component of the study was to explore the phenomenological reports and to compare and contrast those of the meditators and non-meditators using …

The Juan De La Cruz Molino: Folk Architecture At El Güique-Estaca New Mexico, José A. Rivera Ph.D

Faculty Publications

El Güique and Estaca are twin communities just north of the confluence of the Río Grande and the Río Chama. Like other Spanish colonial settlements in the historic Río Arriba, acequia-based agriculture was essential for food production in this high desert region of the northern Río Grande. Along with the construction of acequias, molinos (grist mills) were built to grind wheat into flour as part of the subsistence farming economy of the times. While acequias were communal, molinos most often were constructed and operated as private enterprises by local millers like the case of Juan de la Cruz Borrego and …

Settler Cannabis By Kaitlyn Reed, Danielle Lopez

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

The Phenomenology Of Abstract Awe: A Qualitative Study Of Lived Experiences In Psychedelic Virtual Reality, Jacob Spinks

Psychology ETDs

This thesis investigates individuals' experiences with SoundSelf, a virtual reality (VR) program inspired by psychedelic experience, focusing on its capacity to evoke awe and other self-transcendent experiences. Conducted with fifteen participants, the study involved a single VR session followed by in-depth phenomenological interviews. Through a thematic analysis, three primary themes were constructed: (a) emotions and feelings, the good and the bad; (b) non-reflective engagements, directly living experience; and (c) reflective engagements, exploring curiosity and wonder. The findings indicate that while SoundSelf can elicit a wide array of emotions and self-transcendent experiences, it does not consistently induce awe. This research contributes …

‘We Were Like A Bomb’: Child Refugees, Cuban Politics, And Argentine Revolutionary Organizations, Isabella Cosse

LAII Events

In this History Department Colloquium session, visiting scholar Dr. Isabella Cosse will present her unpublished chapter, “We Were Like a Bomb,” for questions and discussion with the audience. The chapter examines the experience of children and families of Left-wing Argentine insurgents, and their Cuban exile in the 1970s, in order to deepen our understanding of revolutionary internationalism, love, and politics in Cold War Latin America. Attendees can access the chapter at https://bit.ly/3S0mr86.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, the International Studies Institute, and the Latin American & Iberian Institute.

Radicalism Left And Right In Cold War Latin America, Isabella Cosse, Luis Herrán Ávila

LAII Events

Offered in coordination with the Albuquerque Museum's “Dictatorship and the Disappeared” exhibit, Dr's. Cosse and Herrán Ávila will discuss the emergence, operation, ideology, and social relations of left- and right-wing radical political groups in Cold War Latin America. In a conversation moderated by UNM Professor of History Liz Hutchison, these historians will go beyond the usual approaches to Latin American radicalism to examine how forces of religion, sexuality, family formation, and ideology shaped these radical groups’ formation and impact.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, the International Studies Institute, and the Latin …