Goals

The Healer’s Art course will encourage students to:

• Identify, strengthen and cultivate the human dimensions of the practice of medicine
• Recognize the commonality of personal concerns among their peers and gain support for personal development from peers and faculty
• Accept the universality of loss and pain
• Recognize grief as a self-care strategy for physicians, and identify strategies and tools of grieving
• Recognize the importance of community for the healing of grief
• Trust the power of listening and presence to heal others
• Recognize that who they are is as important to their patients as what they know
• Recognize and respond to the dimension of Mystery in the experience of illness
• Strengthen and clarify a personal commitment to medicine as a life’s work
• Develop greater comfort with death and the death beliefs of patients
• Recognize the legitimacy of awe in medicine, and develop the capacity for awe

Seen on the right is Dr. Bryce Kellams as a medical student at UCSF.  Dr. Kellams was a student in Dr. Remen’s first Healer’s Art course.  He will be one of the mentors for our course!