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Overview

Jeffrey Borkan is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Health Professions and Medicine. Their work spans general health professions as well as public health, environmental, and occupational health subfields.

The scientist's research covers multiple main topics including:

  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts

Among recent papers authored, the following have been published:

  • "Health systems science education: The new post-Flexner professionalism for the 21st century," 2021, Medical Teacher
  • "The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University," 2020, Academic Medicine

Frequent co-authors in their research include Maya M. Hammoud, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Julie Oyler, Luan Lawson, and Stephanie R. Starr.

Publications by Jeffrey Borkan have appeared in journals such as Medical Teacher and Academic Medicine, indicating involvement in venues focused on medical education and academic medicine.

Best Publications

  • Fostering and evaluating reflective capacity in medical education: developing the REFLECT rubric for assessing reflective writing

    Hedy S. Wald;Jeffrey M. Borkan;Julie Scott Taylor;David Anthony

  • Mixed methods studies: a foundation for primary care research.

    Jeffrey M. Borkan

  • Referrals for alternative therapies.

    Jeffrey Borkan;Jon O. Neher;Ofra Anson;Bret Smoker

  • A report from the Second International Forum for Primary Care Research on Low Back Pain. Reexamining priorities.

    Jeffrey M. Borkan;Bart Koes;Shmuel Reis;Daniel C. Cherkin

  • Reflecting on reflections: enhancement of medical education curriculum with structured field notes and guided feedback.

    Hedy S. Wald;Stephen W. Davis;Shmuel P. Reis;Alicia D. Monroe

  • Patients’ Perceptions of Cholesterol, Cardiovascular Disease Risk, and Risk Communication Strategies

    Roberta E. Goldman;Donna R. Parker;Donna R. Parker;Charles B. Eaton;Charles B. Eaton;Jeffrey M. Borkan;Jeffrey M. Borkan

  • Talking about the pain: a patient-centered study of low back pain in primary care.

    Jeffrey Borkan;Shmuel Reis;Shmuel Reis;Doron Hermoni;Doron Hermoni;Aya Biderman

  • Health Systems Science Curricula in Undergraduate Medical Education: Identifying and Defining a Potential Curricular Framework

    Jed D. Gonzalo;Michael Dekhtyar;Stephanie R. Starr;Jeffrey Borkan

  • Primary care research priorities in low back pain: an update.

    Lucíola da Cunha Menezes Costa;Bart W. Koes;Glenn Pransky;Jeffrey Borkan

  • An approach for integrating complementary-alternative medicine into primary care.

    Moshe A Frenkel;Jeffrey M Borkan

  • Finding meaning after the fall: injury narratives from elderly hip fracture patients

    Jeffrey M. Borkan;Jeffrey M. Borkan;Mark Quirk;Michael Sullivan

  • Advances in the field of low back pain in primary care: a report from the fourth international forum.

    Jeffrey Borkan;Maurits Van Tulder;Shmuel Reis;Mark L. Schoene

  • Overcoming barriers to teaching the behavioral and social sciences to medical students.

    Jochanan Benbassat;Reuben Baumal;Jeffrey M Borkan;Rosalie Ber

  • An agenda for primary care research on low back pain.

    Jeffrey M. Borkan;Daniel C. Cherkin

  • Encouraging scholarship: medical school programs to promote student inquiry beyond the traditional medical curriculum

    Emily P. Green;Jeffrey M. Borkan;Susan H. Pross;Shelley R. Adler

  • Gradual Electronic Health Record Implementation: New Insights on Physician and Patient Adaptation

    Renée R. Shield;Roberta E. Goldman;David A. Anthony;Nina Wang

  • Doctors and patients in pain: Conflict and collaboration in opioid prescription in primary care.

    Angela Y. Esquibel;Jeffrey Borkan

  • Paired interviews of shared experiences around chronic low back pain: classic mismatch between patients and their doctors

    Andrew Allegretti;Jeffrey M. Borkan;Shmuel Reis;Shmuel Reis;Frances Griffiths

  • Immersion-Crystallization: a valuable analytic tool for healthcare research.

    Jeffrey M Borkan

  • Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective

    Jeffrey M. Borkan

  • Advances in the field of low back pain in primary care

    Jeffrey Borkan;Maurits Van Tulder;Shmuel Reis;Mark L. Schoene

Frequent Co-Authors

Shmuel Reis
Shmuel Reis Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Frances Griffiths
Frances Griffiths University of Warwick
Shelly F. Greenfield
Shelly F. Greenfield Harvard University
Gregory A. Aarons
Gregory A. Aarons University of California, San Diego

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