title: Being a mindful clinical teacher: can mindfulness enhance education in a clinical setting?
abstract: Mindfulness may be viewed as a vehicle to promote the healer's role in medicine. This role addresses the way in which a medical practitioner interacts with patients. The aim of this article is to highlight how mindful qualities may also enhance teaching in clinical settings. Challenges to being a mindful clinical teacher are presented along with creative ways to accommodate them. Residents play an important role in training medical students. Examples of how mindfulness influenced a psychiatric resident's teaching experiences are presented to illustrate the concepts discussed herein. The dimension of "being" in medicine, based on the humanist philosophy of Dr Karl Jaspers, is provided as a framework for this article.
authors.affiliation: McGill University , Canada.
authors.forename: Patricia L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Dobkin
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Laliberté
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D064866:Mindfulness; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*