Sakena Abedin, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)Cards
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Assistant Clinical Professor
Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine
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Assistant Clinical Professor
Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine
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Appointments
Additional Titles
Assistant Clinical Professor
Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
Assistant Clinical Professor; Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine
Biography
Sakena Abedin, MD PhD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a Lecturer in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.
Dr. Abedin is a practicing primary care pediatrician who sees patients at Fair Haven Community Healthcare. She is also a historian who studies 20th century American medicine.
Dr. Abedin’s research focuses on medicine’s encounters with the social world and the various ways in which ‘social’ problems become medicalized in clinical research and practice. Her dissertation is about the history of clinical and social science research on patient behavior, specifically, patients’ compliance with their dodctor’s advice.
Her teaching interests include the history of healthcare for underserved populations and the history of race and disease in American medicine.
Appointments
General Pediatrics
Assistant ProfessorPrimaryHistory of Medicine
Assistant ProfessorSecondary
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Education & Training
- PhD
- Yale University, History of Science and Medicine (2016)
- MD
- Washington University (2002)
Research
Research at a Glance
Yale Co-Authors
Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
Publications
2012
“I'm too used to it”: A longitudinal qualitative study of third year female medical students' experiences of gendered encounters in medical education
Babaria P, Abedin S, Berg D, Nunez-Smith M. “I'm too used to it”: A longitudinal qualitative study of third year female medical students' experiences of gendered encounters in medical education. Social Science & Medicine 2012, 74: 1013-1020. PMID: 22341202, DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.11.043.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsProfessional identity formationFemale medical studentsMedical studentsProfessional identityMedical schoolsFemale studentsUnprofessional behaviorNew England medical schoolsThird-year female medical studentsIdentity formationMedical students' experiencesStudent-supervisor relationshipFuture physician workforceStudent experienceLongitudinal qualitative studyAcademic yearMedical educationStudentsSpecialty choicePhysician workforceSuch experiencesQualitative studyInappropriate behaviorSchoolsGender performance
2009
The Effect of Gender on the Clinical Clerkship Experiences of Female Medical Students: Results From a Qualitative Study
Babaria P, Abedin S, Nunez-Smith M. The Effect of Gender on the Clinical Clerkship Experiences of Female Medical Students: Results From a Qualitative Study. Academic Medicine 2009, 84: 859-866. PMID: 19550176, DOI: 10.1097/acm.0b013e3181a8130c.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsFemale medical studentsIssues of genderMedical studentsMedical educationWorkplace relationshipsNew England medical schoolsThird-year female medical studentsClinical clerkship experienceFirst clinical clerkshipPrior life experiencesQualitative studyStereotypical gender rolesClinical curriculumClerkship experienceClinical clerkshipsMedical schoolsUncomfortable situationRole of genderFemale studentsClinical supervisorsStudentsGender issuesDepth interviewsGender rolesSexual harassment
Clinical Care
Overview
Sakena Abedin MD PhD is a primary care pediatrician who sees patients at Fair Haven Community Health Center. She is the co-director of the Clinic for Autism Diagnosis in Primary Care.
Dr. Abedin is also a lecturer in the history department at Yale, where she teaches undergraduates about the history of the American healthcare system and the history of race and disease in American medicine.
Sakena Abedin, MD, PhD is assistant professor of pediatrics for Yale School of Medicine
Clinical Specialties
Board Certifications
Pediatrics
- Certification Organization
- AB of Pediatrics
- Original Certification Date
- 2005
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