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In pursuit of fulfilling our mission statement to provide practical strategies for increasing doctor self-efficacy in behavioral and cultural interactions, the HDU has taken on various cultural activity projects. Though by no means exhaustive, here is a summary of our projects:
Physician Practice and Change
Cultural Teaching & Raising Awareness
- Residency placements in underserved settings
- Linkage with the Greenblatt Library in an attempt to create a health disparities informational clearinghouse
- Creation of a health disparities WebCT course
- Inclusion of health disparities-related research in The White Coat Review, a health promotion newsletter published quarterly by the Department of Family Medicine
- Planning of an elective course on health disparities for medical students
- Incorporating health disparities discussion in medical student projects
- Noon conferences and research forums on health disparities topics
- Running of the BaFa'BaFa' exercise to simulate real-world culture clashes
Measurement & Assessment of Cultural Beliefs and Cultural Competency
- Development of the TriPartite Model as a method for doctors to elicit their patients' personal explanatory models for illness
- Development of the Cultural Competency Stroop Task as a neurologically based assessment measure of cultural competency
- Use of the Question of the Week format (through HamesNet) to explore topics related to health disparities
Human Behavior Research
Obesity & Exercise
- Obesity Focus Group Study
- Various studies, with topics including obesity, diabetes, gastric bypass, exercise, and Hispanic infant growth rate
Cancer Screening & Colorectal Cancer
- Participation with the East Central Georgia Health Department in the Witness Project®, designed to increase breast and cervical cancer screening rates in 7 rural Georgia counties
- Use of geographic information systems (GIS) mapping techniques to visually represent colorectal cancer rates (provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia) throughout the state of Georgia
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