2009
Tonya Fancher, M.D., M.P.H., is the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of California at Davis.
ACH selected Dr. Fancher for her proposed project to improve communication between physicians and patients from Southeast Asia living in the United States by implementing a course that teaches medical residents the importance of asking about patient’s culture in order to create a trusting relationship.
2010
Janice Hanson, B.A., M.A.Ed., Ed.S., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Family Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
Dr. Hanson was selected by ACH to use the Putnam Scholars Program grant to complete a project to equip faculty to teach and evaluate medical students’ communication skills, using the Essential Elements of Communication (EEC) tool to study the developmental progression of physician-patient communication skills during medical education and to build consistent, coordinated teaching across the curriculum.
2011
Laura K. Rock, MD, is clinician and educator in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston
Dr. Rock was awarded the grant to complete a project at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that will further develop and expand the simulation-based Communication in Family Meetings course.