Abstract
BACKGROUND
In 2000 a diverse group of clinicians/educators at an inner-city safety-net hospital identified relational skills to reduce disparities at the point of care.
DESCRIPTION
The resulting interviewing and precepting model helps build trust with patients as well as with learners. RESPECT adds attention to the relational dimension, addressing documented disparities in respect, empathy, power-sharing, and trust while incorporating prior cross-cultural models. Specific behavioral descriptions for each component make RESPECT a concrete, practical, integrated model for teaching patient care.
CONCLUSIONS
Precepting with RESPECT fosters a safe climate for residents to partner with faculty, address challenges with patients at risk, and improve outcomes.
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INTRODUCTION
The need to reduce health care disparities at the point of care raises urgent challenges for training of medical professionals. Each clinical encounter offers an opportunity to decrease risk for disparate care and poor outcomes. To succeed in this effort, clinicians must transform knowledge and awareness into action and skills; we must partner effectively with patients whose backgrounds may differ dramatically from our own. An expanding literature has identified patient-centered and culturally competent interpersonal skills as critical to maximizing patient satisfaction, trust, adherence, and outcomes.1 The challenges for clinical faculty are two-fold. How do we establish the trust and safe learning climate trainees need to discuss openly their challenges in interactions with patients at risk for disparities? Secondly, if our learners do identify barriers to effective relationships with their patients, what skill set should we teach to help them be more effective? The well-documented decline in medical trainees’ empathy during the clinical years means that house staff may be at particular risk for erosion of the interest and personal skills essential to maximize their patients’ care2,3. Attention to learning climate and supportive training relationships may help restore some of residents’ empathy, while skills training remains important given the often pragmatic orientation of trainees and the need to sustain their motivation and self-efficacy.
In 2000 a racially and culturally diverse group of clinician-educators at Boston Medical Center, a large urban safety net hospital, worked to address this training need, identifying the communication skills we use to relate effectively with our patients, a population with great diversity by race/ethnicity, culture, language, and class. We sought ways to address disparities within each individual doctor-patient encounter and new methods to teach these skills to busy trainees in clinical settings. The resulting RESPECT model is an integrated instrument for teaching, evaluation, and expansion of faculty skills. It provides a guide for what to do and how to teach it. By addressing relations with learners as well as patients, it offers help aligning the powerful hidden curriculum with the explicit curricular goals of compassionate patient care, sensitivity to diverse populations, interpersonal communication, professionalism, life-long learning, and practice-based improvement. These are all core residency training requirements for accreditation by the American Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)4.
What is the RESPECT Model?
The RESPECT model is an action-oriented set of communication and relational behaviors designed to build trust across differences of race/ethnicity, culture, and power5. Clinicians can use RESPECT to target documented disparities in doctor-patient relationships6. Medical educators can use the model as an integrated instrument for teaching, observation, and evaluation. Finally, preceptors can also apply the RESPECT model to their own relationships with learners to facilitate more effective training. The specific component skills for this interviewing model and educational framework are:
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Respect
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Explanatory model
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Social context, including Stressors, Supports, Strengths and Spirituality
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Power
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Empathy
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Concerns
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Trust/ Therapeutic alliance/ Team.
See Table 1 for details on the use of RESPECT for patient care.
Why Another Model?
A review of the literature reveals important early contributions regarding how to elicit and negotiate differences of culture, health beliefs, and practices. Valuable attention to social context helps to understand some issues of the poor, but we did not find the same attention to matters regarding race, power, and distrust apparent to our racially/ethnically diverse patients and clinician group. We also noted that teaching models initially focused on the traditional information-gathering function of the interview rather than a relational guide addressing the affective domain. In the context of an emotional climate of potential distrust, racial, ethnic, and economic inequities, and risk for disparate outcomes, we were looking for a model that teaches physicians how to respond, not just what to ask. What should the physician do to build trust across differences of power, race, ethnicity, and class? Finally, we knew as preceptors that these issues felt sensitive and difficult to address in busy clinical settings with harassed residents trying to handle patients with challenging medical as well as social problems. What in the literature could help us build the relationships with residents that allowed these important conversations, so important to help them better meet the needs of the patients they serve?
A review of the literature on cross-cultural interviewing identified Kleinman’s tool to elicit diverse health beliefs and practices. This widely used set of questions targets the patient’s explanatory model, concerns about the illness, and goals of treatment7. Building on this work, Berlin and Fowkes proposed the LEARN Model, a framework for cross-cultural care8. This model contributes the skills of Listening, Explanation of provider perceptions, Acknowledgement of differences, treatment Recommendations, and Negotiation of plans. The ETHNIC mnemonic, designed by Levin et al., adds helpful attention to the way that cultural beliefs and practices may differ and be addressed. Model components include: seeking Explanations of the patients’ understanding of illness; asking what Treatments patients use and expect; inquiring about alternative Healers; Negotiation of options incorporating patients’ beliefs; designing culturally appropriate Interventions; and Collaboration with patients and their support systems9. Betancourt et al. developed the ESFT model, which added to the Explanatory model the expanded Social context of illness including economics, literacy, and other important constraints10. This model also included attention to the patient’s Fears and concerns about therapy and advocates Therapeutic contracting with patients around medication issues.
These valuable models all facilitate the gathering of relevant information related to cultural issues and introduce the skill of negotiation. However, they focus more on negotiating difference than addressing the power dynamics involved with differences of race, ethnicity, and class, or the relational and affective dimensions of the clinical encounter. These models do not themselves suggest or describe direct provider responsiveness to the emotional climate and potential distrust often operative in encounters across differences of race, ethnicity, and power in our society.11
Since 2001 additional cross-cultural interviewing models have been developed, including the BELIEF model by Dobbie et al., that do recognize the importance of addressing the affective domain in conversations across cultures.12 Its components are: health Beliefs, Explanation, Learn, Impact, Empathy, and Feelings. Still, little attention is given to the dynamics of power and historic oppression important for addressing differences of race, ethnicity, and class in contemporary America. According to a recent critique of multicultural education, too many cultural competence curriculae fail to provide direction in these dimensions.13
In 2008, scholars conversant with the literature regarding cultural competence and patient-centered communication called for the two fields to build on each others’ contributions to increase effectiveness in both domains14. Teal and Street furthered this effort by publishing a comprehensive model using a complex array of communication skills.15 Their important work further supports the elements distilled and prioritized in the RESPECT model while suggesting curricular elements for an in-depth and intensive physician training process.
Why RESPECT the Patient?
Reduction of disparities in clinical practice requires strategic action to bridge differences of race/ethnicity, culture, and power. The RESPECT model can help medical professionals develop the practical skills needed to build trust actively. It expands on earlier models by adding the components of respect, empathy, and power specifically to target documented areas of disparity in interracial and cross-cultural encounters.16 In the context of inequity, stigma, and power differentials, proactive demonstrations of respect seek to mitigate patients’ prior negative experiences and possible expectations of disrespect.17 In the RESPECT model, the provider actively conveys empathy to the patient rather than simply collecting data. Since so much of trust-building is affective and relational, these empathic skills are particularly important.18,19 Providers need skills to counterbalance power differentials through verbal and nonverbal behaviors, actively seeking patients’ concerns, potential disagreements, and barriers to treatment.
Accumulating evidence supports the validity of the RESPECT components as critically related to disparities in care (see Table 1: refs 16,20–27,36). For example, disparities were identified in patients’ experience of respect and trust in surveys of patients and providers conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund.17,28–34 Trust in doctors among African-American patients continues to be diminished by the legacy of the Tuskegee experiment, often reinforced by more contemporary racial experiences.35,36 The components of power and empathy are also supported by evidence regarding disparate experiences of non-white patients. White physicians dominate speech more with non-white patients and display less warmth and patient-centered behaviors.16,36 Another study documented that black patients received less support, partnering, and information from their doctors and have lower levels of trust in their physicians.27
Collaborative empowerment and empathy assume even greater importance given recent findings that physician dominance reduced patient engagement while demonstrations of caring elicited more emotional sharing by the patient and increased activation in the interview37. Another study found that the majority of patients do have the explanatory models of illness described by Kleinman as so pivotal in health-related behaviors, but did not disclose them unless specifically invited to share them.20
The contribution of social factors to health and patients’ approach to health care has also been well established.38 The RESPECT model offers a helpful tool to focus quickly and prioritize elements of the social context most salient to the patient. Physicians can focus on matters of greatest importance to the patient rather than squandering time on less relevant closed-ended demographic information. (see Table 1). The value of identifying the patient’s stressors is supported by clinical studies.39,40 By eliciting strengths, supports, and spiritual resources as well as stressors, the RESPECT model replaces a focus on social deficits with an appreciation of the internal, family, and community strengths fostering self-efficacy, a critical element for health behavior change.23 Recent literature on patient-centered approaches suggests that prompt attention to patients’ emotions and perspective may add to, not diminish efficiency.41
Why RESPECT the Trainee?
Recognizing the learning climate and working to improve teaching relationships addresses the implicit “hidden curriculum” within medical education.42–44. Much learning occurs by selective reinforcement of behaviors that may not be consciously examined.45 Effective teaching must address the persisting decline in empathy documented during the clinical years of medical school and residency.2,3,46 Caring for the socially disadvantaged adds to the personal stressors of residency training.47 Explorations of residents’ errors suggest a reluctance to discuss them with faculty.48 The Institute of Medicine reports on patient safety indicate that rigid hierarchies and atmospheres of fault-finding and blame are antithetical to a safe culture for patient care. A “flattened hierarchy” promotes honesty and reduces defensiveness.49 Growing attention to the implicit curriculum suggests the importance of using methods to train residents that are congruent with learning objectives and content.50,51
Our explicit application of the RESPECT model to both patients and learners is similar to an innovative contribution by Kern et al. teaching residents an approach to psychosocially sensitive care of patients while applying the same approach to the residents.52 As they note, empathic listening skills may wither in residents whose own concerns are routinely ignored. A similar call to address power dynamics in the teaching of prospective doctors recently came from educators focused on the elimination of health disparities.13 We must create a safe learning climate for the open dialogue that learners need to internalize professional values and commit to social justice goals. The call for a wholesale “reorientation of the traditional teacher-student paradigms” requires faculty development related to these new teaching methods.
RESPECT: A Versatile Teaching Tool
Ten years using RESPECT has persuaded us that it is an effective model promoting generalizable skills for a wide range of health care providers working in varied clinical settings. In addition to its utility in clinical practice, the RESPECT model has proven to be a versatile tool for teaching, evaluation, and faculty development.
For pre-clinical learners, didactic presentations and experiential approaches provide exposure to the relational process of clinical care. We adapted RESPECT as an observational tool for students to observe their attendings at work with patients (Looking for RESPECT, BOX 1). Following a lecture introducing the framework and an exercise about difference and power, all first year medical students at Boston University School of Medicine use the tool in their first patient contacts as they observe faculty in diverse clinical settings. They use Looking for RESPECT to guide their observations and write-ups of physician-patient encounters with a focus on patient concerns and relational elements beyond the classical data-oriented approach. Through the lens of the model, students see the clinical relationship and watch doctors build trust and understanding across differences.
To teach these concepts to residents and practicing clinicians, we use case-based learning in discussions, role plays, and trigger tapes. This approach has worked well in interactive didactic presentations with medical residents and clinicians in a variety of settings. As the model is easily generalized, faculty have used it to train substance abuse screeners and health care workers providing breast cancer outreach.53 It has also been adopted for the didactics, discussion, and video demonstration for Alcohol Clinical Teaching, a web-based alcohol training program.54 In a training for experienced eye care professionals and faculty, we solicited problematic cross-cultural clinical encounters cases and addressed them using RESPECT-based role play.55
For residents, we use an inductive exercise designed to help them discover the RESPECT model actively. In case-based pre-clinic conferences at continuity clinics, we encourage them to think through their own cases with challenging communication issues. They then identify the elements contributing to a past success bridging differences and distrust, which combine to form the RESPECT model. The residents then reflect and strategize with peers and faculty about how to apply the model to their other challenging cases, identify skills and behaviors to try in future encounters.
We have found the observation tool designed for medical students, Looking for RESPECT (BOX 1), to be equally useful for preceptors in resident primary care clinics. The model provides a framework that helps faculty go beyond evaluation of standard bedside skills to assess critical competencies of interpersonal communication and professionalism including sensitivity to the needs of diverse populations4. We can use the same teaching tool to stimulate residents’ reflections and self-assessments as well as for more structured performance evaluation as has been suggested.56
Effective teaching in this area requires that residents disclose the challenges that they face in order to reflect on what they’re doing and consider new approaches. A top-down approach is unlikely to succeed in promoting development of this level of ‘critical consciousness.’13 Simply telling learners to be culturally sensitive and respectful does not assure that they can and will do so. We realized that we needed to apply the RESPECT model skills to build relationships with our learners as well as with our patients. We have translated those skills into a precepting guide that helps faculty improve their skills. By explicitly addressing issues of power, Precepting with RESPECT (BOX 2) addresses the implicit curriculum and harnesses parallels between educational and clinical encounters.52 The model incorporates relational and cognitive elements from recommended precepting models that elicit the resident’s model of understanding, encourage independent thinking, and facilitate targeted educational interventions.57,58
We discovered some of these approaches during a year-long faculty development project at our institution in 2004-2005, funded by BCBS of Massachusetts Medical Foundation.59 We applied the RESPECT model in resident clinics and other settings. We sought to make cultural competence, prevention of health care communication disparities, and more effective relationships between residents and patients a routine part of precepting and clinical care. Faculty sought increased comfort and effectiveness precepting residents to connect more effectively with their diverse patient population. A group of ten experienced clinician-educators of diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds joined together in monthly 3-h sessions. The faculty group included four blacks, four whites, one Asian, and one Latina; four participants were born outside of the USA. Participants included clinic preceptors, in-patient attendings, an emergency room attending, and a medical educator, all involved with resident and/or medical student teaching. Most of them had participated in the ongoing Diversity Curriculum Task Force that had originally developed the RESPECT model. Despite our extensive experience, like our learners, we needed the opportunity to reflect and develop skills on how best to approach sensitive subjects and resident interactions that made us uncomfortable. While our commitment to the goals of cultural competence was clear, how to be most effective with our learners in getting there was not. Using Looking for RESPECT (BOX 1), preceptors identified residents’ learning needs and then designed interventions for individual residents using Precepting with RESPECT (BOX 2). Preceptors often role-played these interactions to practice and get feedback from other faculty using faculty development strategies developed by the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare.60 This protected learning environment allowed us to experiment with teaching methods, strategize about challenging teaching encounters, and share resulting observations of resident behaviors and attitudes.
Evaluation
In an effort to test, refine, and disseminate our RESPECT model into the clinical setting, we developed a self-administered questionnaire to evaluate its impact on teachers and trainees. In 2004-2005, we surveyed a diverse group of internal medicine residents at our hospital before and after implementing the RESPECT model as a teaching tool in resident primary care clinic sessions. Ten precepting faculty underwent structured interviews at the end of the intervention. Forty-four residents completed the baseline questionnaire and 20 the post-intervention questionnaire.
The ten precepting faculty all reported increased comfort and skill precepting regarding cross-cultural care in resident continuity clinics. In particular, some expressed a willingness to address racial issues affecting patient care that they had previously regarded as “taboo.” Another theme noted was that faculty members also improved their own interviewing skills. Among the residents surveyed, 88% felt that the RESPECT-based training was useful. We found differences in several survey items pre- and post-training. Residents reported greater comfort when interacting with diverse groups (60% pre, 80% post). Residents seemed more convinced that cross-cultural training might improve health care delivery (57% pre, 93% post). Some reported major improvement in skills related to culturally sensitive interviewing (10% pre, 20% post). The number of residents reporting no skills in this area declined (12% pre, 0% post). Small numbers and limited response rates precluded more statistical analysis of survey results. Changes in preceptor and resident schedules along with variation in the frequency of contact also limited the data.
DISCUSSION
The RESPECT model was a product of a highly diverse group of clinician-educators working together for 10 years at a large urban medical center that cares for racially and ethnically diverse patients from the US and abroad. It is notable that diversity of the faculty group itself allowed us to draw upon personal and clinical experience and to share insights about the role of differences and of race in particular. Together we were able to derive a model of broad clinical utility to the care of our patients. A diverse faculty group’s access to clinical and personal experience outside of majority culture may foster insights less apparent to others28,62. However, in the 2004–2005 evaluation of the project to improve faculty participants’ teaching skills by precepting with RESPECT, our faculty preceptors also noted with interest improved interactions with their own patients by using the RESPECT model. The relational elements in the RESPECT model for interviewing and teaching have a lot to offer even a very sophisticated faculty and remind us that cultural competence and relationship-centered care of at-risk populations require ongoing efforts.
The RESPECT model can be useful to medical schools, residencies, and other health care organizations in meeting their training goals, core curricular competencies, and patient care standards, assuring that quality care is delivered equitably to all. To monitor and continually improve the quality of care and communication with all patients, evolving definitions by the ACGME4 and others44,63–65 of professionalism, practice-based improvement, and systems-based practice remind us that faculty and residents alike need to be lifelong learners. We must remain ever mindful of our ongoing impact on others and the value of teaming up with our patients, trainees, and colleagues. Respectful communication across power differentials among faculty, residents, and colleagues promotes positive professional communication and teamwork along with full and open disclosure.49 This change of culture can promote a personal and systems-based examination of obstacles to optimum care and patient safety, especially important for patients at risk for poor outcomes.
One of the limitations of the RESPECT evaluation is that because of small resident numbers in the pilot clinics and the large number of them unavailable to complete the post-intervention survey, we could not perform tests of statistical difference. However, to date one study of the efficacy of the teaching model has been published.55 Cultural competence training based on the RESPECT model was conducted for faculty at The New England Eye Institute and New England College of Optometry. A follow-up study demonstrated measurable positive impact that persisted 3 months post-intervention, using a cultural competency scale validated by Campinha-Bacote.61
It has been 10 years since we initially derived our interviewing and teaching model from the insights of our racially, ethnically diverse group of clinician educators. During that time empirical data as well as consensus recommendations from the fields of patient-centered communication and cultural competence have been published that support the elements in our model.1,6,15,16 For patients already at risk for disparities, a doctor who dominates the encounter or withholds warmth or empathy is a threat and a lost opportunity to partner for better health.5,6,36 By addressing barriers to trust posed by power differentials, RESPECT may be a helpful part of the solution. What we offer is an easily remembered mnemonic that prioritizes elements linked to documented disparities in a clear, readily applied model. Attention to the power dynamics within our own relationships with residents has helped us precept our learners with RESPECT. Designed to improve communication with patients at risk for disparities, the RESPECT model provides a flexible, practical, and widely applicable teaching model targeting documented disparities in health care communication while promoting relational skills needed to build trust and partner for better health care.
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This work was supported in part by grants from the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center and by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Medical Foundation. We would also like to acknowledge the value to our work of Elaine Pinderhughes’ attention to power and race (Understanding Race, Empathy and Power 1989), the focus on patient and relationship-centered care by the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare (formerly AAPP), and the LEARN and ESFT models cited below. Aileen Richmond, MPH, provided valuable assistance with data collection, faculty interviews, and collation of themes. We also thank Beth Lown, MD, for kindly reviewing the manuscript.
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This article is dedicated with gratitude and respect in memory of Samuel Morse Putnam MD, MPH.
The RESPECT model was developed by members of the Diversity Curriculum Task Force in 2000 originally led by Carol Mostow, Peter Gonzalez, and Julie Crosson including Sandra Gordon, Sheila Chapman, Oranti Aladessamni, Thea James, Eric Hardt, Charles Brackett, and Sandhya Wahi. The model was further elaborated and implemented in the 2004-2005 faculty development project, which in addition to Mostow, Gordon and Crosson included Leyda Delgado, Michele David, Sondra Crosby, Danru Lee, and Sam Putnam.
An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-010-1365-2
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Mostow, C., Crosson, J., Gordon, S. et al. Treating and Precepting with RESPECT: A Relational Model Addressing Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Medical Training. J GEN INTERN MED 25 (Suppl 2), 146–154 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-010-1274-4
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