Medical Humanities & Culturally Responsive Healthcare and Reflective Practice
Presenters: Ron Grant, MD, Patricia Lebensohn, MD, and Ellen Melamed, MS
Intended Audience: Basic and clinical science faculty
Description
The UA COM Medical Humanities Program offers students an opportunity to reflect on the development of professional identity, the integration of ethical, spiritual and cultural beliefs in a conscious and deliberate manner. Among other activities, medical students participate in reflective writing during their preclinical and clinical years in the undergraduate medical education program and receive direct narrative feedback on their writing.
What is the role of reflection on medical humanities in becoming a physician? The presenters will lead an interactive discussion of a variety of issues, to include:
- How do we define and "teach" students about the concept of cultural competence?
- How do humanities, reflective writing and cultural competence affect students' development of
- Communication skills?
- Professionalism?
- Integrity?
- Professional identity?
About the Presenters
Patricia Lebensohn, MD, is a professor of Family and Community Medicine and a Societies mentor for undergraduate medical students. She is the Director of the Integrative Medicine in Residency Program, and Director of the Cancer Survivorship Clinic at the Arizona Cancer Center, as well as Thread Director for Individual and Health, which includes communication skills and professionalism. She received the Humanism in Medicine award in 2010.
Ron Grant, MD, MFA, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UA COM and has an appointment with the University of Michigan, Department of Pediatrics. He is the Director of the Medical Humanities program.
Ellen Melamed, MA, is a lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine and affiliated with the Medical Humanities Program. She moved to Tucson from New York last fall and created and began teaching an elective course in medical humanities in the undergraduate medical education program in Spring 2014.
Refreshments courtesy of AMES (Academy of Medical Education Scholars).
Target Audience
All faculty at AHSC including preclinical, clinical educators; medical students and students of other health care professions
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