Skip to main content

Advertisement

Log in

Implementation of an Integrated Care Learning Experience Within the Psychiatry Clerkship: Nutrition Education of Patients with Serious Mental Illness

  • Feature: Educational Case Report
  • Published:
Academic Psychiatry Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Fig. 1
Fig. 2

References

  1. Evans TS, Berkman N, Brown C, Gaynes B, Weber RP. Disparities within serious mental illness. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US). 2016;

  2. Osborn DP. The poor physical health of people with mental illness. West J Med. 2001;175(5):329–32.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  3. Gleason HA, Truong D, Biebel K, Hobart M, Kolodziej M. Perceived barriers to and facilitators of engagement in reverse integrated care. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2017;44(2):296–303.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Viron MJ, Stern TA. The impact of serious mental illness on health and healthcare. Psychosomatics. 2010;51(6):458–65.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Maragakis A, Siddharthan R, RachBeisel J, Snipes C. Creating a ‘reverse’ integrated primary and mental healthcare clinic for those with serious mental illness. Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2016;17(5):421–7.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Maragakis A, RachBeisel J. Integrated care and the behavioral health home: a new program to help improve somatic health outcomes for those with serious mental illness. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2015;203(12):891–5.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Monlezun DJ, Kasprowicz E, Tosh KW, Nix J, Urday P, Tice D, et al. Medical school-based teaching kitchen improves HbA1c, blood pressure, and cholesterol for patients with type 2 diabetes: results from a novel randomized controlled trial. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2015;109(2):420–6.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  8. Welch LC, Litman HJ, Borba CPC, Vincenzi B, Henderson DC. Does a physician’s attitude toward a patient with mental illness affect clinical management of diabetes? Results from a mixed-method study. Health Serv Res. 2015;50(4):998–1020.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Papish A, Kassam A, Modgill G, Vaz G, Zanussi L, Patten S. Reducing the stigma of mental illness in undergraduate medical education: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Med Educ. 2013;13(1):141.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  10. Schenk S, Baerentzen MB, Geske J, Medder J. Longitudinal study of health outcomes in crossroads clinic. In: UNMC enhanced medical student education tracks capstone project presentations; 2015.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Lyons Z, Janca A. Impact of a psychiatry clerkship on stigma, attitudes towards psychiatry, and psychiatry as a career choice. BMC Med Educ. 2015;15(1):34.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  12. Singh SP, Baxter H, Standen P, Duggan C. Changing the attitudes of ‘tomorrow’s doctors’ towards mental illness and psychiatry: a comparison of two teaching methods. Med Educ. Mar. 1998;32(2):115–20.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  13. Bharathy A, Foo P-L, Russell V. Changing undergraduate attitudes to mental illness. Clin Teach. 2016;13(1):58–62.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  14. Kniffin KM, Wansink B, Devine CM, Sobal J. Eating together at the firehouse: how workplace commensality relates to the performance of firefighters. Hum Perform. 2015;28(4):281–306.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  15. Kuhnigk O, Hofmann M, Böthern AM, Haufs C, Bullinger M, Harendza S. Influence of educational programs on attitudes of medical students towards psychiatry: effects of psychiatric experience, gender, and personality dimensions. Med. Teach. 2009;31(7):e303–10.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  16. Budd S, Kelley R, Day R, Variend H, Dogra N. Student attitudes to psychiatry and their clinical placements. Med Teach. 2011;33(11):e586–92.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We thank all the medical students that enthusiastically participated in Food for Thought and provided feedback to improve the program. Thank you also to the staff and supervising physicians at Community Alliance for your advice regarding the program.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Shinnyi Chou.

Ethics declarations

Disclosures

On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.

Funding Sources

Funding for Food for Thought is provided by The American Psychiatric Association Foundation’s Helping Hands Grant.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Chou, S., Raml, D., Hafner, R. et al. Implementation of an Integrated Care Learning Experience Within the Psychiatry Clerkship: Nutrition Education of Patients with Serious Mental Illness. Acad Psychiatry 42, 410–414 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0780-7

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0780-7

Navigation