Prioritizing ethical patient care responsibilities: A call to restructure student training practices in federally qualified health centers.

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are federally funded clinics that often serve medically underserved groups. Many Colleges of Pharmacy have faculty and non-faculty pharmacist preceptors who provide clinical services such as drug therapy management to FQHCs. It is critical that Colleges of Pharmacy and pharmacist preceptors reinforce and uphold the standard of providing high quality and evidenced based care when students rotate at these sites.

Facing the rising sun: Political imagination in Black adolescents' sociopolitical development.

Black adolescents occupy one of the most precarious and marginalized social locations of society, yet they remain vigilant against oppression. Indeed, Black youth have a vast history of political action and activism around domestic and global issues. Existing scholarship frequently examines the sociocultural and cognitive factors associated with Black adolescents' political and civic engagement and related outcomes.

Interprofessional education model for geriatric falls risk assessment and prevention.

Background: One in three people over the age of 65 fall every year, with 1/3 sustaining at least moderate injury. Falls risk reduction requires an interprofessional health team approach. The literature is lacking in effective models to teach students how to work collaboratively in interprofessional teams for geriatric falls prevention.

Clinical Outcomes in a Primary Care Practice Within a Center for Health Equity.

Objective: A Center for Health Equity that included a primary care practice was built in a neighborhood affected by long-term disparities related to race and class in order to promote health equity within the population. Changes in blood pressure and HbA1c (glycated hemoglobin) over 2 years were examined to assess the impact of providing culturally appropriate and patient-centered care.

Methods: Data from June 1, 2012, to June 30, 2014 were obtained.

Sleep duration, quality, or stability and obesity in an urban family medicine center.

Purpose: Inadequate sleep has negative metabolic consequences that may contribute to obesity. A priori hypotheses posit relationships between sleep characteristics, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, appetite, fatigue, and obesity in laboratory, clinical, and population settings. There are few reports from primary care; and none that address sleep duration, quality, and stability.

The better weight-better sleep study: a pilot intervention in primary care.

Objective: To explore the feasibility of integrating sleep management interventions with dietary and exercise interventions for obesity in a 12-week randomized trial.

Methods: We randomized 49 overweight or obese adult patients either to a better weight (BW) cognitive behavioral intervention, or to a combination of the BW intervention and a better sleep intervention, better weight-better sleep (BWBS).

Results: The BWBS group lost weight faster (P=.