Isabelle Leblanc
Scientific Series: September 5, 2024
"Too much pain doctor!”: Training clinicians to detect expressions of psychological distress in patients of diverse ethnocultural groups
Clinicians often struggle with identifying psychosocial stress presenting as somatic complaints. It is even harder in a transcultural context. This presentation will outline a research project aiming at creating a teaching module for clinicians on that topic. It will present finding from the research as well as the next steps to create a module for clinicians and residents from the Department of Family Medicine.
At the end of this presentation, participants will:
Recognize the difficulty of assessing psychosocial distress in a transcultural context
Identify 3 strategies to elicit psychological aspect of pain
Be familiar with different presentations of psychosocial distress
Dr. Isabelle Leblanc is a primary care family physician who came to medicine after training in anthropology and literature. She completed her medical studies at the University of Ottawa and her residency at McGill. In her position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, she has taught bioethics, interprofessional communication and social health issues to both students and residents in family medicine. She practices and teaches in Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal.