COURSE GOALS

 

The Healer’s Art course encourages students to:

 

·     Identify, strengthen, and cultivate the human dimensions of the practice of medicine

 

·     Recognize the commonality of personal concerns among their peers and gain support for personal development from peers and faculty

 

·     Accept the universality of loss and pain

 

·     Recognize grief as a self-care strategy for physicians, and identify strategies and tools of grieving

 

·     Recognize the importance of community for the healing of grief

 

·     Trust the power of listening and presence to heal others

 

·     Recognize that who they are is as important to their patients as what they know

 

·     Recognize and respond to the dimension of Mystery in the practice of medicine

 

·     Recognize the legitimacy of awe of in medicine, and develop the capacity for awe.

 

·     Recognize that community develops when peers listen to one another generously and compassionately

 

·     Legitimize openness and dialogue with colleagues and patients in the areas of service, mission, and calling

Rachel Naomi Remen and the history of The Healer's Art

The Healer's Art description and introductory lecture by Rachel Naomi Remen