Teaching medicine as a human experience: a patient-doctor relationship course for faculty and first-year medical students.
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.
Branch
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WT
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Arky
R A
RA
Woo
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B
Stoeckle
J D
JD
Levy
D B
DB
Taylor
W C
WC
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