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Sandro Pinheiro de Oliveira

Sandro Pinheiro de Oliveira

Professor in Medicine
Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care
sandro.pinheiro@duke.edu
Duke Box 3003, Durham, NC 27710
3502 Hosp South, Durham, NC

Selected Publications

An Initiative to Address Health Disparities: Calls, Advocacy, and Resources for OldEr Adults (CARE).

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · July 2025 Goals and components of the Calls, Advocacy, and Resources for OldEr Adults program. ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Design and Evaluation of an Interprofessional Preceptor Development Mini-Fellowship Program.

Journal Article J Contin Educ Health Prof · October 1, 2024 INTRODUCTION: Health professions preceptors require skills and knowledge to effectively meet the educational needs of interprofessional students in clinical environments. We implemented a mini-fellowship program to enhance the knowledge, skills, and self-e ... Full text Link to item Cite

Race differences in patient trust and distrust from audio-recorded cardiology encounters.

Journal Article Patient Educ Couns · February 2024 OBJECTIVE: Many have reported racial disparities in self-reported trust in clinicians but have not directly assessed expressions of trust and distrust in physician-patient encounters. We created a codebook to examine racial differences in patient trust and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Design and pilot test of an implicit bias mitigation curriculum for clinicians.

Journal Article Front Med (Lausanne) · 2024 INTRODUCTION: Clinician implicit racial bias (IB) may lead to lower quality care and adverse health outcomes for Black patients. Educational efforts to train clinicians to mitigate IB vary widely and have insufficient evidence of impact. We developed and p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effect of a Coaching Intervention to Improve Cardiologist Communication: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Intern Med · June 1, 2023 IMPORTANCE: Communication between cardiologists and patients can significantly affect patient comprehension, adherence, and satisfaction. To our knowledge, a coaching intervention to improve cardiologist communication has not been tested. OBJECTIVE: To eva ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Arts for healing in geriatrics.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · September 2022 Full text Link to item Cite

Do Physician Assistant Students Use Retrieval-Based Strategies While Studying?

Journal Article J Physician Assist Educ · September 1, 2022 INTRODUCTION: Research on learning indicates that active retrieval of information (ie, testing) enhances student retention of knowledge, yet, it is underutilized by learners. This research investigated physician assistant (PA) students' study strategies an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Addressing the opioid crisis: a dynamic case-based module set for interprofessional educators, learners, and clinicians

Internet Publication · March 24, 2022 Introduction: In 2017, the opioid crisis was declared a public health emergency in the United States. The CDC has called for a multifaceted, collaborative approach to address the opioid epidemic. Though many resources have been made available for provider ... Full text Link to item Cite

Addressing the Opioid Crisis: A Dynamic Case-Based Module Set for Interprofessional Educators, Learners, and Clinicians.

Journal Article MedEdPORTAL · 2022 INTRODUCTION: In 2017, the opioid crisis was declared a public health emergency in the United States. The CDC has called for a multifaceted, collaborative approach to address the opioid epidemic. Though many resources have been made available for provider ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

The Impact of Racial Bias in Patient Care and Medical Education: Let's Focus on the Educator.

Journal Article MedEdPORTAL · 2021 INTRODUCTION: Racial bias in health care is well documented. Research shows the presence of racial bias among health care providers. There is a paucity of workshops focused on racial bias effects in health professions educators. METHOD: Two to three worksh ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

An innovative educational clinical experience promoting geriatric exercise.

Journal Article Gerontol Geriatr Educ · 2020 Formal educational training in physical activity promotion is relatively sparse throughout the medical education system. The authors describe an innovative clinical experience in physical activity directed at medical clinicians on a geriatrics rotation. Th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Increasing Physician Assistant Students' Team Communication Skills and Confidence Throughout Clinical Training.

Journal Article J Physician Assist Educ · December 2019 PURPOSE: An intervention was designed to increase physician assistant students' team communication skills using the Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) tool. METHODS: A variety of learning activities were implemented longitudinally over 9 ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Design and Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research Curriculum.

Journal Article J Natl Med Assoc · August 2018 BACKGROUND: Disparities in health and healthcare are widely documented for underrepresented racial and ethnic populations across a spectrum of diseases and care settings. An evidence base for addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcar ... Full text Link to item Cite

Resident learning across the full range of core competencies through a transitions of care curriculum.

Journal Article Gerontol Geriatr Educ · 2018 The authors developed a Transitions of Care (TOC) curriculum to teach and measure learner competence in performing TOC tasks for older adults. Internal medicine interns at an academic residency program received the curriculum, which consisted of experienti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Advancing Geriatrics Education Through a Faculty Development Program for Geriatrics-Oriented Clinician Educators.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · December 2015 Geriatrician and nongeriatrician faculty need instruction as teachers to provide quality training for a broader community of physicians who can care for the expanding population of older adults. Educators at Duke University designed a program to equip geri ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Connecting the learners: improving uptake of a nursing home educational program by focusing on staff interactions.

Journal Article Gerontologist · June 2014 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: The CONNECT intervention is designed to improve staff connections, communication, and use of multiple perspectives for problem solving. This analysis compared staff descriptions of the learning climate, use of social constructivist le ... Full text Link to item Cite

A framework for revising preservice curriculum for nonphysician clinicians: The mozambique experience.

Journal Article Educ Health (Abingdon) · 2014 Mozambique, with approximately 0.4 physicians and 4.1 nurses per 10,000 people, has one of the lowest ratios of health care providers to population in the world. To rapidly scale up health care coverage, the Mozambique Ministry of Health has pushed for gre ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Design and evaluation of a prelicensure interprofessional course on improving care transitions.

Conference Gerontol Geriatr Educ · 2014 Effective management of care transitions for older adults require the coordinated expertise of an interprofessional team. Unfortunately, different health care professions are rarely educated together or trained in teamwork skills. To address this issue, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

CONNECT for better fall prevention in nursing homes: results from a pilot intervention study.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · December 2013 OBJECTIVES: To determine whether an intervention that improves nursing home (NH) staff connections, communication, and problem solving (CONNECT) would improve implementation of a falls reduction education program (FALLS). DESIGN: Cluster randomized trial. ... Full text Link to item Cite

An advanced course in long term care for geriatric medicine fellows.

Journal Article J Am Med Dir Assoc · July 2013 Long term care deserves focused attention within a geriatric medicine fellowship curriculum to ensure that graduates are prepared not only for clinical care but also for the leadership, administrative, educational, quality improvement, and health policy as ... Full text Link to item Cite

CONNECT for Fall Prevention: a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

Improving Uptake of a Falls Educational Program by Focusing on Staff Interactions.

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2012 Link to item Cite

A Multimodal Evaluation of an Internal Medicine Geriatrics Rotation.

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2011 Link to item Cite

Designing a learner-centered geriatrics curriculum for multilevel medical learners.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · January 2010 This article describes the development of a learner-centered, needs-based geriatrics curriculum for medical trainees, specifically, a geriatric block rotation for family medicine and internal medicine residents with the incorporation of a new group of lear ... Full text Link to item Cite

PROBLEMS IN TRANSITIONS OF CARE: A COURSE SESSION EXEMPLAR

Journal Article GERONTOLOGIST · October 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

Mentoring: a key strategy to prepare the next generation of physicians to care for an aging America.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · July 2009 Mentoring is an important instructional strategy that should be maximally used to develop the next generation of physicians who will care for a growing population of frail older adults. Mentoring can fulfill three specific purposes: (1) help learners choos ... Full text Link to item Cite

'So you want to be a clinician-educator...': designing a clinician-educator curriculum for internal medicine residents.

Journal Article Med Teach · June 2009 BACKGROUND: Despite a growing demand for skilled teachers and administrators in graduate medical education, clinician-educator tracks for residents are rare and though some institutions offer 'resident-as-teacher' programs to assist residents in developing ... Full text Link to item Cite

Geriatric oncology: past, present, future.

Journal Article J Oncol Pract · July 2008 Efforts to integrate geriatric oncology principles in the training of all medical oncologists are underway. ... Full text Link to item Cite

The geriatrics excellence in teaching series: an integrated educational skills curriculum for faculty and fellows development.

Journal Article J Am Geriatr Soc · April 2008 Geriatricians need to acquire skills in teaching and curriculum development to educate physicians caring for the growing population of adults aged 65 and older. To meet this challenge, educators in the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Huma ... Full text Link to item Cite

A geriatric fellow palliative care curriculum

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2008 Link to item Cite

Solving the long-term care puzzle: A unique learning experience for medical students.

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2007 Link to item Cite

Self-efficacy gains after a faculty development program in curriculum development.

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2007 Link to item Cite

Long-term care education: Facilitated through faculty development and project mentoring.

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2007 Link to item Cite

Institutional impact of a part-time faculty development fellowship program for osteopathic community-based physicians.

Journal Article J Am Osteopath Assoc · November 2002 Evaluation of faculty development programs for medical educators has often focused on the satisfaction of individual learners. Long-term outcomes of skills and knowledge acquired during faculty development programs have been more difficult to evaluate. The ... Link to item Cite

Delirium Education for internal medicine residents

Conference Journal of the american geriatrics society delirium education for internal medicine residents! ... Cite