Training Compassionate Educators and Students - A Focus on Marginalized Communities

Training Compassionate Educators and Students - A Focus on Marginalized Communities

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Symposium Goals

To increase knowledge, cultural sensitivity, and cultural humility to best serve diverse patient populations
To promote diversity and inclusion in interprofessional training for diverse patient populations

This symposium is sponsored by a diversity grant from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Session 1: The Interns’ Perspective: How to be an Effective and Exceptional Preceptor

Have you ever wondered “how can I be the best preceptor?” and found yourself at a dead-end for answers on where to begin? Google searches on the topic provide standard answers without logical backing based in the field of dietetics. The Interns’ Perspective takes a deeper look into exactly what recent internship graduates are looking for in their preceptors. Additionally, it will investigate what the expectation of interns truly should look like. While all interns may not be created equal, there are a few key factors in making sure that you, as a preceptor, are providing a meaningful and engaging experience to your student.

Session 2: Liberalizing Diet Orders Amongst Older Adults Using A Patient-Centered Approach in Acute Care

As dietitians, we are responsible for making sure our patients are being given adequate nutrition with consideration to their specific health conditions and individualized needs. The following webinar will cover the nutritional needs of the older population ages 65+ and our role as dietitians in providing appropriate patient-centered care in the acute care setting. We will go on to discuss the challenges that come up in ordering a restrictive diet in combination with the elderly population and the action steps the dietitian can take in his or her work setting to provide optimal care.

Session 3: Centering the Voices and Experiences of Marginalized Through Anti-Oppression & Contemplative Pedagogy

For many underrepresented minorities (URM), numerous barriers exist to becoming a health professional. Greater levels of discrimination and bias reduces belonging and agency in URM students impacting recruitment and retention. Hurtado and Alvarado (2015) cite discrimination and bias as being antithetical to feeling a sense of belonging on college campuses for URM students. The sense of belonging for URM students has been positively linked to retention and other academic outcomes (Strayhorn, 2019). Faculty interaction and campus environment have been correlated to sense of belonging. Thus, faculty members Incorporation of mindfulness anti-oppression pedagogy provides a needed paradigm shift for dietetic educators to act with intentionality as they cultivate spaces of belonging for URM students. In this webinar we will examine our positionality and role in maintaining the status quo due to mental schemas which inform unconscious bias, and we will explore mindfulness anti-oppression pedagogy as a means to disrupt and dismantle.

Session 4: Believing Children are Our Future: Serving Equality & Impartiality with Child Meals

We spend our time investing in our careers. We spend our lives investing in society. We spend our talents investing in our futures. What happens when we are no more? How can we ensure our time, lives, and talents add value? Few things are more important than the well-being of a child. Children take what is given and what is absorbed to create all that is new. As nutrition and health professionals, how we inspire, serve, and nurture children determines the returns on our investments. Let’s delve into what it takes to maximize those returns for a brighter future.

CPE Level: 2

CPEU: 4.00

Learning Objectives

Session 1: The Interns’ Perspective: How to be an Effective and Exceptional Preceptor
- Identify key applicable characteristics of an exceptional preceptor.
- Describe the role of an intern in an internship/preceptor relationship.
- Apply practical precepting tips to positively impact interns’ experiences.
Session 2: Liberalizing Diet Orders Amongst Older Adults Using A Patient-Centered Approach in Acute Care
- Participants will better understand the nutritional needs of elderly adults 65+.
- Participants will learn about the impact of decreased appetite with restrictive diets on elderly patients in the acute care setting.
- Participants will be informed of the action steps that need to be taken to dietitians to acknowledge decreased appetite in combination with the patients dietary needs in the clinical setting.
Session 3: Centering the Voices and Experiences of Marginalized Through Anti-Oppression & Contemplative Pedagogy
- Explain the implications of social positionality on structures and systems.
- Discuss how systems of power/hierarchy are maintained through tacit agreement.
- Discuss the role of radical empathy and anti-oppressive mindfulness pedagogy in dismantling power systems and supporting marginalized students.
Session 4: Believing Children are Our Future: Serving Equality & Impartiality with Child Meals
- Define Social Determinants of Health & systemic racism and explore their impact on equity and on the behaviors and mindsets of those we serve.
- Examine how implicit bias, racial colorblindness, and microaggressions influence our interactions.
- Summarize methods to provide optimal service and care throughout nutrition and health care environments.

Performance Indicators

Session 1: The Interns’ Perspective: How to be an Effective and Exceptional Preceptor
- 1.7.1, 6.5.6, 6.8.3
Session 2: Liberalizing Diet Orders Amongst Older Adults Using A Patient-Centered Approach in Acute Care
- 4.1, 4.2, 10.5.1
Session 3: Centering the Voices and Experiences of Marginalized Through Anti-Oppression & Contemplative Pedagogy
- 1.7.1, 1.7.3, 12.2.1
Session 4: Believing Children are Our Future: Serving Equality & Impartiality with Child Meals
- 1.7.1, 6.5.6, 6.8.3