Center of Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities, and Training (EXPORT) of the Department of Health Policy of MSSM
EXPORT Center
The Department of Health Policy of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, awarded as a Center of Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities, and Training (EXPORT) from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH, aims to build research capacity targeting underrepresented minority medical faculty and students at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and North General Hospital. A goal of the EXPORT Center is to promote participation and training in biomedical and behavioral research among health disparity populations. The EXPORT Center is comprised of three activity cores, each focusing on developing the research, training, and community capacity to conduct effective and meaningful research aimed at eliminating health disparities.
Training Core Component
The training core component of the EXPORT Center builds on the considerable strengths of and coordinates with existing programs at Mount Sinai School of Medicine that serve the needs of minority medical students and faculty. Under the leadership of Co-Core Directors Drs. Linda Williams (North General Hospital) and Gary Butts (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), the training core aims towards building and enhancing minority health services and outcomes research capacity at North General Hospital.
Training Core Activities
- North General Health Disparities Forum
The Forum is a free seminar series focusing on health disparities using an evidence-based approach to engage faculty, medical students, residents, and other interested parties in an interactive focused topical discussion. Seminar topics include, but not limited to, clinical research and policy evaluation, cultural competency, research methods and design, and the meaning of race in research.
- “Overcoming Barriers to Effective Care for Minorities”
The purpose of the study is to conduct focus groups with residents from North General Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine to explore their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs about and experiences with minority patients they care for, and how their training environment fosters or detracts from development of cultural competency. The relationship between culture, health beliefs and health seeking behavior has been well established by medical anthropologists. Disparities in health and health care have been linked to patients' health behavior based on cultural beliefs, and to clinicians who provide differential care to minority patients. Social and cultural differences between physicians and minority patients may exaggerate disparities. Cultural competency training programs are now underway at many institutions in an effort to improve quality of care and patient outcomes with strong encouragement from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Liaison Committee for Medical Education, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Through the training core of the EXPORT Center, we aim to assess residents’ knowledge, attitudes, and experiences and conduct an intervention to improve delivery of culturally effective care and patient outcomes. We will conduct and analyze focus groups with resident physicians to explore their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs about and experiences with minority patients they care for, and how their training environment fosters or detracts from development of cultural competency.
Learn more about North General Hospital’s role in EXPORT.
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