title: Looking Within: Intentions of Practice for Person-Centered Care.
abstract: In order to integrate the biological, psychological, social, and existential dimensions of care into my day-to-day clinical encounters with patients, I have worked to cultivate several intentions of practice. These intentions of practice-habits of mind that nurture my resolve to attend to patients as complex human beings- help me navigate my interactions with patients and families in ways that are simultaneously efficacious and therapeutic. When routinely recalled and adeptly implemented, they are what distinguish me as a competent and capable practitioner of person-centered care, when I am at my best, from when I am not. I present them here in hopes that others may find them useful as they progress down their ongoing paths as healing physicians.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Studies in History, Anthropology and Archeology, University of El Salvador, San Salvador wventres@gmail.com.|Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Ventres
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations
keywords: bioethics; family practice; medical education; person-centered care; physician’s role; professionalism