UTHSCSA Faculty Profiles v1.0
Tapia, Beatriz
School of Medicine
Family & Community Medicine
(956) 365-8820
tapiab@uthscsa.edu
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Beatriz Tapia, M.D., M.P.H. is an environmental medicine training coordinator for the South Texas Environmental Education and Research Center (STEER). She is a Faculty Associate for the department of Family and Community at the UTHSCSA. She assists the month-long Laredo elective in environmental and occupational medicine. She is active in various border health organizations, recently appointed member to the epidemiology subcommittee for United States Mxico Border Health Association.
Her research interest are Environmental & Occupational Health, Health Disparities and Border Health.
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| 9/2008 - Present |
Faculty Associate |
UT Health Science Center S.A., Family & Community Medicine, Harlingen, TX |
| 1/2008 - Present |
Adjunct Faculty |
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Laredo, TX |
| Year |
Degree |
Discipline |
Institution |
| 2005 |
MPH |
Public Health |
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore , MD |
| 1998 |
MD |
Medicine (Ad Honorem Award for Thesis Presentation) |
Autonomous University of Puebla
Puebla , Mexico |
Areas of Research Interest -
Environmental & Occupational Health, Health Disparities and Border Health. |
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Description |
Institution |
# Students |
| 1/2009 - Present |
Review of Evidence Base Medicine |
UT Health Science Center SA Regional Academic Health Center |
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| Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine (short course)
This course aims to provide medical students with a set of evidence-based tools relating to diagnosis, prognosis, therapy and harm. Students will learn to formulate clinical questions so that they can be answered, to search for information, to critically appraise the evidence for validity and clinical importance, and apply the evidence in clinical practice.
On completion of this short course you will have developed the ability to:
Appropriately formulate answerable clinical questions.
Search the scientific literature for information addressing these questions.
Critically appraise the quality of the scientific literature.
Apply the results from research studies to inform clinical practice. |
| 3/2006 - Present |
Market Basket |
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7 students |
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| 3/2006 - Present |
Introduction to the Mexican Health Care System |
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7 students |
| Co-lecturer, facilitator, discussion group leader and translator. |
| 3/2006 - Present |
Environmental Medi/Border Health |
The University of Texas Health Science Center |
7 students |
| Environmental Medical Training Coordinator, teaching several and facilitating the rest of the other modules each month. Ongoing evaluation of the curriculum and continuous assessment of potential additions to the program content based on current border health issues. |
Journal Article |
| Gilliam ML, Warden M, Goldstein C, Tapia B. Concerns about contraceptive side effects among young Latinas: a focus-group approach Contraception 2004 Oct;70(4):299-305.
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| Gilliam ML, Warden MM, Tapia B. Young Latinas recall contraceptive use before and after pregnancy: a focus group study J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 2004 Aug;17(4):279-287.
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Abstract |
| Miller CS, Escobedo E, Bortoni P, Heilburn L, Tapia B. "Pesticide Exposure and Antioxidant Status During Pregnancy Among Hispanic Women at the US-Mexico Border"; 2007 Nov.
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| Tapia B. STEER: An Innovtive Way of Teaching Environmental Health Education to Health Professional Students; 2006 Nov.
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