On the heels of two successful interdisciplinary conferences to develop the concept of structural competency, we will hold a workshop to discuss the planned papers of key conference participants who have volunteered to contribute to a special journal issue on Structural Competency. The workshop will be a half day in which issue contributors will present an outline of their papers for comment by assigned discussants and by audience members. The workshop is open to all; we ask that you RSVP at lduncan@nyu.edu, since light refreshments will be served. See the draft for the workshop agenda below (subject to change).
Paper Workshop for Special Issue on Structural Competency
Friday, June 14, 1-6PM
NYU Langone School of Medicine Departmental Offices
One Park Avenue, Seventh Floor, “Central Park” Meeting Room
Introduction
1:00-1:10PM
Helena Hansen and Jonathan Metzl: “The promise of structural competency and how to promote it.”
Knowledge of Social Determinants for Practice
1:10-2:10
Bruce Link: “What a fundamental causes approach to clinical care would look like.”
Dalton Conley: “Biosocial research on social stratification: what the interaction of environment and biology directs us to do to improve health.”
Jonathan Metzl [coauthored with Dorothy Roberts]: “Race, Politics, and the Structure of Diagnostic Knowledge.”
Structuring Training
2:10-3:10
Philippe Bourgois [coauthored with James Quesada]: “Structural vulnerability: medical trainee assessment of social determinants in clinical care.”.
H. Jack Geiger and Pyser Edelsack: “Teaching medical students to treat the (structural) cause of the illness – a 40 year retrospective.”
Philip Alberti [coauthored with Robert Englander]: “Structuring mandated core competencies in medical education: what effective training in systems competency would require.”
Break
3:10-3:20
Clinically Crafted Policy
3:20-4:20
Gary Belkin: “Structural competency in U.S. Health Reform: Aligning institutions to address social determinants of health.”
Ernest Drucker and Eric Manheimer: “From Prisons to Public Health: A project uniting leaders and trainees in corrections and medicine in New York City.”
Julie Netherland and Helena Hansen: “Physicians in drug policy: the double-edged sword of medicalizing addiction to promote health equity.”
Clinicians as Community Partners
4:20-5:00
Mindy Fullilove: “Urban restoration: reversing racial segregation through city reunification as medical competence.”
Kim Hopper [coauthored with Vikram Patel]: “What the U.S. can learn from Global Mental Health – Structurally.”
Clinical Case Series in Structural Competency
5:00-5:45
Scott Stonington “Structures withholding pain medication from a cancer patient in Thailand.”
Seth Holmes “An indigenous migrant farmworker with headaches.”
Jeremy Greene “Treatment failure in a young Guatemalan woman in Baltimore with asthma.”
Refreshments
5:45-6:15
