 | William Phillips Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine - University of Washington, Seattle, WA. USA |
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01.04.2025-25.04.2025
Building an integrated model of suffering, caring, and healing to disrupt the depersonalization of health care
Expected Work Products
A graphic integrated model of suffering – caring – healing.
Article for publication in a major peer-reviewed health journal
Article for publication in a prominent lay magazine.
Short-Term Outcomes
Within the first year, our academic report in a major peer-reviewed journal will reach an international, interprofessional readership of physicians and other health professionals. The report will synthesize scholarship and evidence across multiple disciplines and describe an integrated Model of Suffering, Caring, and Healing.
Models. Graphic models will illustrate the dynamic, complex, and interrelated components in a way that is understandable by patients, actionable by practicing clinicians, and measurable by healthcare systems.
Research. It will summarize evidence collected by the strategic portfolio of studies currently underway in our growing international, interprofessional network of educators and clinicians.
Clinicians. The integrated model, educational modules, and clinical evidence will catalyze innovation and improvements in the training of health professionals and the care of all.
Patients. This patient-centered, whole-person model offers tools to meet the needs of patients in primary and specialty care with chronic illness, chronic pain, palliative and end-of-life care, mental health, substance misuse, life-threatening illness, disability, and trauma.
Communities. The evidence-based, community-oriented model will help systems address the needs of challenging populations. These include children, the aged, underserved, vulnerable communities, underrepresented and minoritized groups, and those adversely affected by social determinants of health, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination.
Long-Term Impacts
Successful projects will have tangible outcomes that create lasting positive change. Describe the impact your project will have over the long term
The integrated Model of Suffering, Caring, and Healing will catalyze fundamental improvements in clinician training, patient care, and health systems. It will improve health care and health outcomes worldwide. The synthesis of scholarship and evidence, focused through the powerful lens of family medicine and comprehensive care, will provide a compelling, understandable, and actionable model of these complex processes.
Practical tools will help clinicians and patients partner to address suffering and create opportunities for healing.
The conceptual framework will help teachers and learners build the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for this critical work.
Measurable dimensions will allow systems to restructure incentives to reward clinician behaviors that contribute to the “Quadruple Aim” of improved patient outcomes, patient experience, clinician experience, and lower costs.
More comprehensive and effective care will help reduce current disparities.
The ultimate test will be better biomedical outcomes and health status for all patients in all communities.
Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine), Epidemiology, and Health Systems and Population Health (Faculty of Public Health.
American family doctor, educator, scientist, editor, and professional leader. Award-winning practitioner, teacher, mentor, and researcher.
Practice experience in the community-based practice of comprehensive patient care, including maternity, hospital, and home care.
Teaching expertise in family medicine/general practice, preventive medicine, clinical practice guidelines, continuity of care, patient-clinician communication, clinical decision-making, community health, and medical humanities. Leader in mentoring, reflective learning, and inter-professional education.
Research contributions to improvements in the understanding and practice of prevention and control of cancer and STD/HIV, back pain, and the identification and management of suffering. Scientific leader in primary care research methods, practice-based research, preventive medicine, evidence-based medicine, clinical epidemiology, and technology assessment..
Experienced editor and expert in scientific communication and research reporting. Past editor of the Annals of Family Medicine.
UW Website: https://familymedicine.uw.edu/profile/?id=7623&type=facultyORCID ID: 0000-0003-2802-4349
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2802-4349Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/475366/william-r-phillips/
Web of Science: V-1065-2017
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Phillips10
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