Description

“Humanism in Health and Healthcare”, a free open access course, is available on NextGenU.org. The course was developed by Oakland University - William Beaumont School of Medicine and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation. The course includes 13 modules:

• History of Medicine, Modernism, and the Emergence of the Biomedical Model
• Epidemiological Transition and the Humanistic (Re)turn
• Medicalization and Social Control of Health
• Biopsychosocial Model
• Birth of Bioethics and the Evolution of Humanism
• Science of Empathy
• Building Empathy: Practices of the Senses
• Empathy in Practice: Narrative Medicine/Narrative Communication
• Self-Care: Caring for Self to Care for Others
• Problems of Otherness and Dilemmas of Difference
• Marginalization
• Cultural Competency to Cultural Humility: Habits of Respectful Curiosity
• Future of Humanism in Health and Health Care

Authors

Jason Adam Wasserman, Ph.D., Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

Contact

wasserman@oakland.edu

Learner Audience

Undergraduate Medical Education (UME), Graduate Medical Education (GME), Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Professional Development (CME/CPD), Interprofessional

Domain

Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Professionalism, Systems Based Practice

Resource Type(s)

Distance Learning - Asynchronous

Instructional Method(s)

Self-Directed Learning