Gender, ethnic, and behavioral considerations affecting disease treatment and prevention, including psychosocial, cultural, occupational, and environmental

Gender, ethnic, and behavioral considerations affecting disease treatment and prevention, including psychosocial, cultural, occupational, and environmental:

• progression through the life cycle, including birth through senescence
  • cognitive, language, motor skills, and social and interpersonal development
  • sexual development
  • influence of developmental stage on physician-patient interview
• psychological and social factors influencing patient behavior
  • personality traits or coping style, including coping mechanisms
  • psychodynamic and behavioral factors, related past experience
  • family and cultural factors, including socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and gender
  • adaptive behavioral responses to stress and illness
  • maladaptive behavioral responses to stress and illness
  • interactions between the patient and the physician or the health care system
  • patient adherence (general and adolescent)
• patient interviewing, consultation, and interactions with the family
  • establishing and maintaining rapport
  • data gathering
  • approaches to patient education
  • enticing patients to make lifestyle changes
  • communicating bad news
  • “difficult” interviews
  • multicultural ethnic characteristics
• medical ethics, jurisprudence, and professional behavior
  • consent and informed consent to treatment
  • physician-patient relationships
  • death and dying
  • birth-related issues
  • issues related to patient participation in research
  • interactions with other health professionals, including impaired physician and patient safety
  • sexuality and the profession; other “boundary” issues
  • ethics of managed care
  • organization and cost of health care delivery.
  •  Source: http://www.usmleworldwide.com/blog/?p=173