Healer's Art Course
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Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. |
The Healer’s Art course is offered to first year students in the Winter. It was designed by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., and is offered at more than 50 medical schools in the U.S. The course’s innovative educational strategy is based on a discovery model, and draws on tested approaches and theories from such fields as humanistic psychology, formational theory, and cognitive and Jungian psychology.
In 2002, the course was featured in the U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Graduate Schools issue as an example of excellence in medical education.
The Healer’s Art addresses the hidden crisis in medicine, the growing loss of meaning and commitment experienced by physicians nationwide under the stresses of today’s health-care system. Numerous surveys document the difficulties physicians are having in maintaining a sense of personal and professional satisfaction in their work and maintaining an ongoing commitment to the profession. Rates of physician dropout are presently climbing nationwide. Among medical educators, the question of how to stress-proof students to meet the challenges of practice has become urgent.
Tibetian Singing Bowl |
Meaning is the antecedent of commitment. The pressures of contemporary practice may require us to broaden our customary educational objectives and goals, to help students develop the capacity to find meaning lifelong in the same systematic way we now foster the skills to maintain a current knowledge base and technical expertise. The course enables the formation of a community of inquiry between students and faculty. It takes a highly innovative, interactive, contemplative and didactic approach to enabling students to perceive the personal and universal meaning in their daily experience of medicine.
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