Implementing Trauma Informed Care in Daily Practice with Dr. Megan Gerber

Megan Gerber, MD, MPH is a general internist with a career-long focus on the medical care of trauma-exposed women. We start out defining trauma and then get introduced to trauma-informed care.  Interfacing with the medical system and physicians can be traumatizing and triggering, so we discussed ways to minimize that, and why it actually isn’t important to identify who needs trauma informed care. We should be taking a “universal precautions” like approach.  She teaches us how to incorporate a routine of respectful care and how we can get the staff involved.  The approach to patients needs to change from questions like “what’s wrong with you?” to “what happened to you?” but this needs to happen within the confines of our time limited schedules, so Dr. Gerber teaches out how to be effective while still respecting the time of those in the waiting room.

She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University and Medical Director of Women’s Health at VA Boston. She holds an adjunct appointment as Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  Her work focuses on optimizing medical outcomes for women who have experienced trauma as well as adapting systems of care to be “trauma-informed” and sensitive to the needs of survivors.  She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications on intimate partner violence and is the editor of the recently released Springer book, “Trauma-informed Healthcare Approaches: A Guide for Primary Care.”   After a brief hiatus, she is now back and very active on Twitter at @meggerber

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/profile/megan-gerber/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Megan_Gerber

This medical podcast with a physician mentor introduces trauma informed care for busy doctors, overwhelmed doctors, and burnt out physicians. Listeners will learn physician lessons in communicating with patients, physician soft skills, and managing patient relationships in ways that reduce physician stress and improve patient encounters. We explore why trauma informed care should be treated like universal precautions, how good physicians and fulfilled doctors can avoid doctor regret, and how medical decisions can be made with compassion and efficiency. This episode helps physicians bring trauma informed care into time-limited schedules, improve doctor charting and medical education, and become inspiring physicians who know how to communicate with patients respectfully.

This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!

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