John Coverdale

Biographic Data

ID173231
NAMEJohn Coverdale
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMECoverdale
SIGNATURECOVERDALE J
AFFILIATIONSBaylor College of Medicine
ORCID0000-0001-9301-4687
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Recognizing the Value of Teaching Sexual History-Taking

    Open AccessJohn Coverdale, Laura Weiss RobertsARTICLEAcademic Medicine2025

    Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this editorial do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the AAMC or its members. Learning how to take a sexual history with compassion, sensitivity, and thoroughness is a critically important clinical skill for health professions students to learn at all levels of training. Sexual histories provide valuable insight into the health of patients across the age spectrum, particularly regarding their overall …

  • Addressing Moral Distress After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: A Professional Virtues-Based Approach

    Open AccessRebecca Chen, Mollie Gordon et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2024

    The June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization abolished federal protections for reproductive choice. In states where subsequent legislation has restricted or banned access to abortion services, physicians and trainees are prevented from providing ethically justified evidence-based care when patients with previable pregnancies are seeking an abortion. Pregnant patients’ vulnerabilities, stress, and the u…

  • How Should Health Care Organizations Limit Roles of Human Trafficking in Their Labor and Supply Chains

    Open AccessMollie Gordon, Rebecca Chen et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2024

    There has been little attention given to roles played by human trafficking in health care organizations' supply chains. Hand sanitizers and gloves, for example, might be produced by forced labor, which tends to increase in prevalence during pandemics, mass violence, migration, or other global crises. This article considers the nature and scope of health care organizations' corporate and social responsibilities to procure products and personnel ju…

  • Clinical and Advocacy Implications of the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization Ruling on Trafficked Persons

    Open AccessIla Gautham, John Coverdale et al.ARTICLEViolence Against Women2024

    The United States Supreme Court decision on the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization abolished federal protections of abortion, leaving abortion legislation at the discretion of individual states. Trafficked persons are a population especially vulnerable to the impacts of this ruling. Because there is no existing literature describing the effects of restrictive abortion legislation on this group, we described some of the potentia…

  • Professional virtue of civility: Responding to commentaries

    Laurence B Mccullough, John Coverdale et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

  • Green inhaler prescribing and the ethical obligations of physicians

    John CoverdaleARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

  • Professional virtue of civility and the responsibilities of medical educators and academic leaders

    Open AccessLaurence B Mccullough, John Coverdale et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

    Incivility among physicians, between physicians and learners, and between physicians and nurses or other healthcare professionals has become commonplace. If allowed to continue unchecked by academic leaders and medical educators, incivility can cause personal psychological injury and seriously damage organisational culture. As such, incivility is a potent threat to professionalism. This paper uniquely draws on the history of professional ethics i…

  • A Pilot Program’s Healthcare Response to Human Trafficking in Houston, Texas

    Eugenia Y Chen, Katherine Robichaux et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Trafficking2023References: 18

    Baylor College of Medicine, in collaboration with city of Houston officials and local healthcare and social service agencies, created a hospital-based program to better identify and address the complex and urgent needs of patients with a history of human trafficking exploitation. This article describes the development of the city-wide public health approach to human trafficking, which brings together local hospital systems, nonprofit advocacy age…

  • Academic Olympism and Authorship: Honoring Contributions to Collaborative Scholarship

    Open AccessBridget C OʼBrien, Bridget C O’Brien et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    On August 1, 2021, the world witnessed an act of true collegiality as 2 athletes, Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi, shared the podium for the gold medal in the high jump at the 2020 summer Olympic games. 1 When the 2 longtime friends and rivals reached the limit of their performance at the same height, an official proposed a jump-off to break the tie. Barshim asked if 2 gold medals were an option and the official promptly replied, “It’s p…

  • Trainees Are Change Agents: An Introduction to This Year’s Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor

    Laura Blyton, Lala L Forrest et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    We [trainees] have inherited a system that breeds complacency and acceptance of health disparities as inevitable. This is a legacy that must end with us. Start today. Start now. The next time someone tells you race is a risk factor, ask “Why?” —Melson et al, “Race as Risk Factor: Always Ask ‘Why?’” 1 The topic of Academic Medicine’s 2021 call for trainee-authored Letters to the Editor was Trainees as Agents of Change in Academic Medicine and the …

  • John Gregory’s medical ethics elucidates the concepts of compassion and empathy

    Laurence B Mccullough, John Coverdale et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2022

    PURPOSE: This paper draws on eighteenth-century British medical ethics to elucidate compassion and empathy and explains how compassion and empathy can be taught, to rectify their frequent conflation. COMPASSION IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL ETHICS: The professional virtue of compassion was first described in eighteenth-century British medical ethics by the Scottish physician-ethicist, John Gregory (1724-1773) who built on the moral psychology of Davi…

  • Courage and Community: An Introduction to This Year’s Trainee-Authored Letters to the Editor

    Lala L Forrest, Elizabeth S Karlin et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    Although I had transported patients in the past, I quickly learned that the weight of a deceased person was a different kind of heavy.... The hardest part was the sheer volume, the sea of white and orange bags distinguished only by a tag attached to the outside. But I refused to let them become interchangeable. I read every tag, every name, every age. Before we lifted a body from the gurney to the shelf, I took a brief moment to lay my hand on wh…

  • Courage and Mental Health: Physicians and Physicians-in-Training Sharing Their Personal Narratives

    John Coverdale, Colin P West et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    Stress, distress, and symptoms of depression and anxiety are common among medical students, 1,2 residents, 3 and physicians. 4–6 Physicians are at risk for suicide, with women, nonmajority-identifying individuals, and members of certain specialties being particularly at risk. 7,8 Suicide is a leading cause of death among residents in programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 9 and is a tragic occurrence in me…

  • What are the Human Trafficking Policies of Professional Medical Organizations

    Shelley Fang, P Nguyen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Trafficking2021

    Introduction: Human trafficking is an international public health concern in which healthcare professionals are in a unique position to intervene. It is unclear how professional medical organizations have responded to the need to identify and assist trafficked patients.Methods: Using key phrases “human trafficking,” “medical organization,” and “policy,” search engines and databases including Google Scholar, PubMed, and Google were utilized to ide…

  • Mpro: A Professionalism Curriculum to Enhance the Professional Identity Formation of University Premedical Students

    Open AccessGia Merlo, Hanjun Ryu et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2021

    Limited opportunities exist for university premedical students to gain exposure to the realities of clinical practice through physician shadowing or through a formal curriculum. Medical Professionalism and Observership utilizes didactics, reflective writing, small- and large- group discussions, and clinical observerships to enhance the process of professional identity formation during a critical developmental window of late- adolescence. The pilo…

  • Treatment considerations for foreign-born victims of human trafficking: Practical applications of an ecological framework

    Open AccessTemilola K Salami, Mollie Gordon et al.ARTICLETranscultural Psychiatric…2021Cited by: 1References: 52

    Foreign-born individuals immigrating to or residing in the United States are especially vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers. Being trafficked elevates the risk for a variety of physical and mental health problems; thus, victims will often come into contact with health professionals. Because there is a dearth of literature concerning the treatment of human trafficking victims, and especially foreign-born victims, we set out to describe the p…

  • Why Write

    Laura Weiss Roberts, John CoverdaleARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    If my doctor told me I only had six months to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. —Isaac Asimov1 The field of academic medicine is filled with extraordinary educators and brilliant clinicians. Many of these professionals are also gifted communicators who, seemingly with little effort, can share knowledge and inspire their students and patients. And, yet, many of these colleagues struggle when it comes to writing. They fret. They del…

  • On the Use and Value of Reporting Guidelines in Health Professions Education Research

    Bridget C OʼBrien, Colin P West et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    Conversations about the use and value of reporting guidelines in research publications often elicit polarized views. Such views signal a need for more information and thoughtful consideration. As an example from our own field of health professions education, the editors’ panel discussion at the 2019 meeting of the Association for Medical Education in Europe in Vienna, Austria, entitled Controversies and Challenges in Publishing Health Professions…

  • The USMLE Step 1 Examination: Can Pass/Fail Make the Grade

    Colin P West, Steven J Durning et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    On February 12, 2020, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) announced that the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 will transition to pass/fail results reporting in 2022. This examination is one of several tests from the USMLE that must be passed to practice medicine in the United States. Performance on Step 1 is one of many factors considered in the selection of ca…

  • Teaching Professional Formation in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Laurence B Mccullough, John Coverdale et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020

    In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Association of American Medical Colleges has called for a temporary suspension of clinical teaching activities for medical students. Planning for the continued involvement of learners in patient care during this pandemic should include teaching learners professional formation. The authors provide an ethical framework to guide such teaching, based on the ethical principle of beneficence and the professiona…

  • Managing Care of an Intrapartum Patient with Agitation and Psychosis: Ethical and Legal Implications

    Open AccessLaurence B Mccullough, Frank A Chervenak et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2016

    Case Ms. S arrived, unaccompanied, at the emergency department of an urban academic hospital in the early evening. She was disheveled and delusional, exclaiming that she had been invaded by an alien force. Because she was obviously pregnant and apparently in labor, she was seen by the obstetrician on call. No useful history could be obtained, and Ms. S did not cooperate with attempts to evaluate the status of her pregnancy

  • Behind the Mug Shot Grin”: Uses of Madness-Talk in Reports of Loughner’s Mass Killing

    Open AccessJohn Coverdale, John H Coverdale et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication Inquiry2013References: 40

    There are few studies of the manner in which media portray the mental state of mass killers. There are also no formally tested frameworks or models for understanding how such portrayals contribute to the stigma of mental illness. In this article we analyzed the initial depictions of a high-profile mass killer applying discourse analytic methods to representations of the Tucson shooter, Jared Loughner, in the New York Times. We identified fourteen…

  • Caregivers' Stresses When Living Together or Apart from Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia

    Open AccessTannis M Laidlaw, John Coverdale et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2002Cited by: 2References: 12

  • The Stress of Caring for People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

    Open AccessTannis M Laidlaw, Ian R H Falloon et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal1999Cited by: 1References: 24

  • Sexually transmitted disease prevention services for female chronically mentally ill patients

    Open AccessJohn Coverdale, John H Coverdale et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal1995Cited by: 2References: 39