Weight Stigma! The Difficult Cadaver | Journal Club Episode | TAPP 93

Weight stigma among health professionals is a form ofdiscrimination that can haveserious consequences in the lives of people who are overweight or obese. These folks are therefore often pre-judged as being difficult patients, for example.Krista Rompolski joins us for aJournal Club episode, where we discuss a paper on how attitudes aboutlarge body donors may contribute to weight stigma amonghealth professionals. What's going on? Is there anything we educators do to influence student attitudes? An important topic for our times, for sure!00:00 | Introduction01:10 | Journal Club with Krista Rompolski03:05 | Sponsored by AAA04:01 | The "difficult" cadaver: weight bias in the gross anatomy lab11:43 | Sponsored by HAPI12:31 | The Conversation Begins29:31 | Sponsored by HAPS30:26 | The Conversation Continues59:46 | Staying ConnectedIf you cannot see or activate the audio player, go to:theAPprofessor.org/podcast-episode-93.htmlApply for your credential (badge/certificate) for listening to this episode:theAPprofesssor.org/podcast-episode-XX.html/#badge Please take the anonymous survey:theAPprofessor.org/survey Questions& Feedback:1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-546-6336) FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Revue,Tumblr, orInstagram!@theAPprofessor Get the almost-dailyTAPP Science& Education UpdatesResearch indicates that weight stigma can cause physical and psychological harm, and that affected individuals are less likely to receive adequate ca...
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