Mind-Body Connection
A cognitive intervention that enhances mental flexibility, attention, emotional balance, and well-being.
What is Mindfulness Meditation?
The medical model that describes the integration of biological, psychological, and social/cultural factors in health and healing.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
Techniques a patient uses to deal with a medical diagnosis or treatment and other challenges of living.
What is Coping?
Communication skills you acquire in Doctoring to increase awareness of patients’ needs and emotional experiences.
What is NEURS?
The medical Educational Program Objective (EPO) that describes students' and physicians' behavior while managing their responsibilities.
What is Professionalism?
Evidence-based therapy/standard of care in treating depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, and other disorders of the brain and body.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Type of trauma that is experienced by a specific cultural, racial or ethnic group that crosses generations and adversely impacts health.
What is Historical Trauma?
COM-P educational modality that provides patients' and family members' honest perspectives on illness, interactions with the healthcare system, and what physicians can do to advocate for and communicate effectively.
What is a Patient Panel?
The physician's transmission of compassionate care or alternately a lack of sensitivity through physical posture, facial expressions, or other body language.
What is Non-verbal Communication?
The metaphor I used in my ILM to describe your transformation to becoming a physician.
What is Molting?
Text that classifies 157 mental health diagnoses, the most common of which you will learn to diagnose and differentiate.
What is the DSM-5? Or,
What is the DSM-5-TR?
Personal and social attributes that mitigate health risks.
What is Resilience? OR
What are Protective Factors?
Evidence-based treatment to evoke patients’ readiness to change a behavior that impacts health.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
Skills you will learn to evaluate the fixed and modifiable risk factors of a patient who may be harmful to self or others.
What is a Risk Assessment?
An evidence-based practice used to decrease physician’s burnout and build resilience.
What is a Debrief?
Acronym that refers to the well-documented neurotoxic effects of childhood trauma on health outcomes in adulthood.
What is ACEs?
A significant but perhaps inaccurate influence on patients’ health behavior that physicians can mitigate through sensitively-delivered, evidence-based patient communication.
What is Health Misinformation?
A patient's willingness to follow the physician's treatment plan/recommendations that depends on multiple emotional and relationship factors, including the partnership with the physician.
What is Medical Adherence?
Type of patient-centered care that enhances physicians’ sensitivity to patients’ personal and family history and response to Physical Exams.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
Skills and attitudes you will learn to enhance awareness of your own and others' emotions, and maintain the reputation and relationships you desire.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Issues that arise for patients and loved ones when receiving a diagnosis, medical procedure, and/or end-of-life care.
What are Existential Issues?
The physical, emotional, cognitive, and social aspects of being human, and psychological stages that describe the range of normal functioning.
What is Lifespan Development?
The medical principle underlying patients' health behavior and the physician's respect for this.
What is Patient Autonomy?
The psychological term for the physician's reaction to a patient that can promote or be a barrier to a strong working relationship.
What is Countertransference?
A courageous, mature coping technique used by healthcare trainees, professionals, and patients who experience distress and recognize their need for assistance, information, guidance, support, or resources.
What is Help-Seeking Behavior?