Main description:

Most medical schools in the US, Canada and UK now incorporate some form of arts and humanities-based teaching into their curricula. What happens in residency is another story. Most postgraduate programs do not continue the thread of such teaching although many residents would like to deepen their understanding of the medical humanities before they move into practice. The humanities emphasize "the human side of medicine", and can provide a counterpoint to the
reductionism of evidence-based medicine and technological hubris for young doctors as they apply new knowledge and skills in ambiguous, real-life encounters with patients who are living with complicated health problems.

Humanities-based education can help both sides of the relationship: programs are shown to reduce burnout and mental health issues in young physicians, and can also help learning practitioners grapple with the most difficult aspects of their craft: how does one persuade patients on a course of treatment, while respecting informed consent? How does one work with families? How does one listen to and treat patients exhibiting self-harm tendencies? Available research may demonstrate the efficacy of
such exposures, but provide little practical advice or resources for setting up programs across specialty and sub-specialty disciplines.

Health Humanities in Post-Graduate Medical Education will fill this gap in knowledge translation for the thousands of residency programs worldwide, allowing educators, supervisors, and residents themselves to create robust and educationally sound workshops, seminars, study groups, lecture series, research and arts-based projects, publications and events.

Contents:

Foreword-At the Coalface: Engaging the Humanities in Medical Education
Arno K. Kumagai

Acknowledgments

Contributors

About the Authors

1. Why Are the Health Humanities Relevant (and Vital) in Postgraduate Medical Education?
Anna Skorzewska and Allan D. Peterkin

2. Redirecting the Clinical Gaze: Film as a Tool of Critical Reflection in Residency Training
Elysse Leonard and Michael Tau

3. Narrative Medicine in Postgraduate Medical Education: Practices, Principles, Paradoxes
Shannon Arntfield and Kathryn Hynes

4. "Learning on the Job": Ethics in Postgraduate Medical Education
Chryssa McAlister, Mona Gupta, Carrie Bernard, Neda Ghiam, and Philip C. Hebertt

5. The Visible Curriculum
Eva-Marie Stern and Shelley Wall

6. Teaching the Social Sciences in Residency
Zach Feilchenfeld, Ayelet Kuper, Farah Friesen, Amanda Chen, and Cynthia Whitehead

7. The Use of Theater With Medical Residents: An Embodied Approach to Learning About Self and Other
L. J. Nelles, Peggy Hamilton, Paul Robert D'Alessandro, Jeremy Rezmovitz, Lu Gao, Suvendrini Lena, and Anna Skorzewska

8. Promoting Collaborative Competencies: Using the Arts and the Humanities to Enhance Relational Practice and Teamwork
Sylvia Langlois and Karen Gold

9. Teaching History of Medicine/Healthcare in Residency
Edward Shorter and Susan E. Belangerr

10. Difficult Conversations: Evaluating the Medical Humanities
Martina Kelly

11. How to Fund and Promote Arts-Based Initiatives in Postgraduate Medical Education
Robert Pierre Tomas

Afterword
Craig Irvine

Appendix: Suggested Readings and Resources