In May 1999, 21 leaders and representatives from major medical education and professional
organizations attended an invitational conference jointly sponsored by the Bayer Institute for …

To restore the “humanism” in medical care, medical education needs to espouse the goal of
creating physician-healers. Critical, and often neglected, factors in healing are the personal …

Mindful practitioners attend in a nonjudgmental way to their own physical and mental
processes during ordinary, everyday tasks. This critical self-reflection enables physicians to …

The importance of communication between doctors and patients has been well established,
and there is growing acceptance of the need to teach and assess communication skills in …

Introduction Ensuring medical students are equipped with essential knowledge and portable
skills to face complex ethical issues underlines the need for ethics education in medical …

Science and engineering educators and employers agree that students should graduate
from college with expertise in their major subject area as well as the skills and competencies …

Modern-day discourse on medical professionalism has largely been dominated by a
“nostalgic” view, emphasizing individual motives and behaviors. Shaped by a defining …

Several authors agree that student observations of behaviors are a far greater influence than
prescriptions for behavior offered in the classroom. While these authors stress the …

Roughly half of all deaths in the United States are linked to behavioral and social factors.
The leading causes of preventable death and disease in the United States are smoking …

Increasing attention has been focused on developing professionalism in medical school
graduates. Unfortunately, the culture of academic medical centers and the behaviors that …