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Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivor Advocacy in the Medical Setting: Guidance on Providing Survivor-centered Care
The Health Care Coalition Against Domestic Violence presents “Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivor Advocacy in the Medical Setting: Guidance on Providing Survivor-centered Care” a seminar built for domestic violence and sexual assault victim advocates in hospital-based response programs and advocates from community-based service providers who conduct interventions in hospitals and clinics. Register to examine common challenges faced in the medical setting and strategies to overcome each. Each participant will walk away with concrete tools which offer person-centered key points…
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The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. Please email mps@mdpsych.org for additional meeting information.
Find out more »What Does Implicit Bias Mean To You & Our Health Care System?
A Free, Virtual CME Meeting Co-Sponsored by Baltimore City Medical Society Co-Sponsored by the UMD School of Public Health Center for Health Equity Our expert panel will discuss the historical persistence of implicit bias and how it affects our clinical decisions and how to reduce its effects the clinical setting. All Maryland physicians must take a mandated implicit bias CME before fall 2022 licensing Moderator Stephen Thomas, PhD, Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity & Professor, UMD School of…
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March reading Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Find out more »Healing from Racial Trauma: A Social Ecological Approach (Free CME)
Denese Shervington, M.D., M.P.H., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine and the president and CEO of the Institute for Women and Ethnic Studies, will lead this webinar on the impacts of racialized trauma. This webinar will describe how historicized and ongoing racialized trauma has negatively impacted generations of African Americans and explore multi-level healing pathways utilizing the Social Ecological Model. Learners will be provided with information on the intergenerational biologic transmission of historical trauma and examples…
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