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00:00 -- 05:00: Introduction of Dr. Laeth Nasir MD (Chair of Family Medicine and medical anthropology program faculty) and Dr. Dianne Travers Gustafson RN PhD (medical anthropology program faculty) by Dr. Laura Heinemann PhD MSW (medical anthropology program faculty).
05:00 -- 11:57: Cross-cultural experiences and medical anthropology approaches improving public health and clinical practice.
11:58 -- 17:50: Applying medical anthropology to clinical practice through engaging in cross-cultural comparisons, considering the complexities of health and illness, and question one's own assumptions about clinical practice by learning from communities and patients.
17:51 -- 24:12: Anthropology skills nurturing a patient-centered approach by including sociocultural aspects of health, illness, and treatment in clinical assessments and encouraging cultural sensitivity.
24:13 -- 32:25: The distinction between competent clinicians, who are proficient in the biomedical sciences, and excellent clinicians, who can also draw on sociocultural skills in their clinical practice to identify a broad range of possible treatment and care options and the option most appropriate for patients.
32:26 - 35:08: The value of the skill and tool-set of medical anthropology aiding clinicians to engage with patients, leading to a better understanding of the social context and to incorporate such understandings in clinical practice.
35:09 -- 39:22: Medical anthropology, medicine, and nursing complementing each other.
39:23 -- 39:51: Concluding remarks.