title: Teaching medicine as a human experience: a patient-doctor relationship course for faculty and first-year medical students.
abstract: We developed a required, longitudinal course for first-year medical students that addressed the patient-doctor relationship. Our course linked understanding patients' experiences and perspectives on illness with listening to, talking with, and establishing a rapport with patients while obtaining their medical histories. Learning was enhanced by use of an interdisciplinary faculty and by small-group continuity and faculty mentoring. Our curriculum adapted problem-based, self-directed educational methods to convey medical humanism. We focused on bedside interviewing as the means for exploring patients' social, emotional, and ethical concerns.
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Branch
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Arky
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Stoeckle
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001900:Boston; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000458:organization & administration; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012945:Social Values; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods