title: Slow medical education.
abstract: Slow medical education borrows from other "slow" movements by offering a complementary orientation to medical education that emphasizes the value of slow and thoughtful reflection and interaction in medical education and clinical care. Such slow experiences, when systematically structured throughout the curriculum, offer ways for learners to engage in thoughtful reflection, dialogue, appreciation, and human understanding, with the hope that they will incorporate these practices throughout their lives as physicians. This Perspective offers several spaces in the medical curriculum where slowing down is possible: while reading and writing at various times in the curriculum and while providing clinical care, focusing particularly on conducting the physical exam and other dimensions of patient care. Time taken to slow down in these ways offers emerging physicians opportunities to more fully incorporate their experiences into a professional identity that embodies reflection, critical awareness, cultural humility, and empathy. The authors argue that these curricular spaces must be created in a very deliberate manner, even on busy ward services, throughout the education of physicians.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Wear is professor of family and community medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio. Dr. Zarconi is system vice president for medical education and chief academic officer, Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio, and professor of medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio. Dr. Kumagai is professor of internal medicine and medical education and director, Family Centered Experience and Longitudinal Case Studies Programs, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ms. Cole-Kelly is professor of family medicine and director, Communication in Medicine and Foundations of Clinical Medicine Seminars, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: Delese
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wear
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zarconi
authors.forename: Arno
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cole-Kelly
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013997:Time Factors