Finley, Margaret RosinaSchool of Medicine |
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M. Rosina Finley BSN, MD, CMD is a Family and Community Medicine (F&CM) and Geriatrics physician currently practicing Long Term Care (LTC) and Hospice and Palliative Care. She is passionate about providing quality care to the elderly and serving the LTC continuum community, its residents and families and the individuals that care for those residents. She has been instrumental in developing the UTHSCSA LTC curriculum which is currently being used in the training of interdisciplinary professional students, medical students, interns and residents, geriatric and hospice and palliative care fellows, nurses, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, dieticians, social workers, and chaplains. She precepts and mentors physicians interested in becoming medical directors in LTC and Hospice and Palliative Care. She is also involved in providing ethics education as a preceptor with UTHSCSA?s Center for Humanities and Ethics. She serves as a community liaison for many of the long term care and hospice and palliative educational programs at UTHSCSA. She is dedicated to the recruitment and retention of qualified LTC healthcare professionals of all disciplines and creating educational programs and pipelines in primary care geriatrics and hospice and palliative care. In addition, she speaks at the local, state and national levels on cross-cultural ethics. |
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| 9/2016 - Present | Post-Acute and L-T Care Consultant and Medical Director | Sorrento/Cantex Continuing Care, San Antonio, TX |
| 2/2014 - Present | Post-Acute and L-T Care Medicine Director Educator | UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX |
| 9/2013 - Present | Professor/Clinical and Faculty Physician | UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX |
| 6/2006 - Present | Hospice Medical Director | UTHSCSA, Family & Community Medicine, San Antonio, TX |
| Year | Degree | Discipline | Institution |
| 1999 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Geriatrics | UNMHSC Albuquerque , NM |
| 1997 | Residency | Family & Community Medicine | UNMHSC Albuquerque , NM |
| 1995 | Internship | Family & Community Medicine | UNMHSC Albuquerque , NM |
| 1994 | MD | Medicine | UNMSOM Albuquerque , NM |
| 1980 | BSN | Nursing | UNM School of Nursing Albuquerque , NM |
| 1977 | ADN | Nursing | Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, NM Roswell , NM |
Cross-Cultural Ethics- UTHSCSA Center for Humanities and Ethics preceptor and local, state, and national level speaker on cross-cultural ethics. |
Geriatrics & Hospice and Palliative Care- Clinical, Administrative, Service and Education |
Hospice Medical Director- Hospice and Palliative Care |
Post-Acute and L-T Care Medicine Medical Director- Cerified Medical Director (CMD) of LTC Educator |
| Date | Description | Institution | # Students |
| 7/2012 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA Family Medicine Community Geriatrics Partners | |
| 7/2012 - Present | Medicine, Behavior & Society (MBS) | UTHSCSA | 12 students |
| MBS is a 6-nonconsecutive week course that takes place over the first 15 months of medical school. Week 1: Professional, Ethical Decision-Making, Communication,Week 2: Research & Research Ethics, Week 3: Human behavior & development ? infancy to adolescence,Week 4: Human behavior & development ? adulthood to death,Week 5: Cognitive development,Week 6: Global issues (health economics, the health care system, public health ethics, diversity, cultural and religious competency. Each week students will have a case to work on as a small group and will take part in self-directed learning based on learning issues they must master for the week. On Wednesday of each week from 10am to noon, students will have a required small group session which I facilitate. | |||
| 8/2010 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA Community Geriatrics Partners | |
| 1/2010 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA Community Program Partners | |
| 7/2009 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA Family Medicine Community Partner | |
| 2/2009 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA Family Medicine Community Geriatrics Partner | |
| 1/2009 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA Community Partners | |
| 1/2009 - Present | Rotation Student Supervision | UTHSCSA Community Geriatrics Partner | |
| 3/2008 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA Community Partners | |
| 1/2008 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA Community Geriatrics Partners | |
| 5/2006 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA Geriatrics Community Partner | |
Abstract |
| Patel N, Ye Y, Aniemeke C, Mathew R, Vela K, Finley MR. Reducing Emergency Room Referrals in Response to Nursing Home Calls: A Quality Improvement (QI) Update; 2016 Mar. (JAMDA; vol. 17, no. 3). |
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| Funding Agency | Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics |
| Title | Community Service Learning Mini-Geriatrics Grant Award |
| Status | Complete |
| Period | 8/2010 - Present |
| Role | Co-Investigator |
| Grant Detail | Minigrant awarded to one faculty mentor and one medical student to review "Geriatric Transitions Into Long Term Care Rehabilitation" as a quality improvement project for a local nursing home where the faculty mentor serves as a medical director. A "nurse-nurse" communication tool has been developed and is used to improve communication during transitions of care. The process of order translation and trancription is also reviewed. This is an ongoing project. |
| Funding Agency | Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics |
| Title | Community Service Learning Mini-Geriatrics Grant Award |
| Status | Active |
| Period | 4/2013 - Present |
| Role | Co-Investigator |
| Grant Detail | Minigrant awarded to one faculty mentor and several medical students to review a "Music and Art in Medicine" program as a quality improvement project for a local nursing home where the faculty mentor serves as a medical director/medical director educator. This is an ongoing project. |