(Vol. 6, No. 40)
Learning about medicine is a lifelong endeavor whether you’re a patient, a doctor, a caregiver, a hospital administrator or, perhaps, even an insurance company executive. In today’s Grand Rounds, we’ve an array of eleven perspectives that, directly or indirectly, bear on the suggested theme of education.
If there’s a motif that emerged unsolicited this week, it’s empathy, a term highlighted in the titles of two submitted posts:
In Glass Hospital, Dr. John Schumann considers what motivates health care workers in a thoughtful post, Finding Empathy. Schumann, an internist and medical educator at the University of Chicago, suggests that doctors and nurses need to re-encounter and re-engage with empathy to continually find meaning in their work.
Bedside Manner, a blog out of Boston’s Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, offers an article on ‘Boosting’ Empathy through Continuing Medical Education. Here, director Julie Rosen writes on newly-published data on the value of post-graduate, interdisciplinary sessions where clinicians discuss psychosocial and
