Healer's Art

Catalog description: The Healer's Art is a course created to address the emerging crisis in medicine: the growing loss of meaning and commitment experienced by physicians nationwide under the stresses of today's health-care system. One of the primary goals of the course is to help students develop the capacity to find meaning lifelong in the same systematic way we now foster the skills to maintain a current knowledge base and technical expertise. The course is a process-based curriculum that forms a community of inquiry among students and faculty. It takes a highly innovative, interactive, contemplative and didactic approach to enabling students to perceive the personal and universal meaning in their daily experience of medicine.