Journal article
Requiring the Healer's Art Curriculum to Promote Professional Identity Formation Among Medical Students
The Journal of medical humanities, Vol.41(4), pp.531-541
12/01/2020
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-020-09649-z
PMID: 32748226
Abstract
The Healer's Art curriculum (HART) is one of the best-known educational strategies to support medical student professional identity formation. HART has been widely used as an elective curriculum. We evaluated students' experience with HART when the curriculum was required. All one hundred eleven members of the class of 2019 University of New Mexico School of Medicine students were required to enroll in HART. We surveyed the students before and after the course to as.sess its self-reported impact on key elements of professional identity formation such as empathy towards patients and peers, commitment to service, and burnout. A majority of students (n=53 of 92, 57.6%) reported positive effects of the course on their empathy towards other students. This finding was significantly associated with self-reported willingness to have elected the course bad it not been required. One-half of respondents (n=46 of 92, 50.0%) reported positive effects on their empathy towards future patients. At least one-quarter to one-third of respondents reported positive influences on commitment to service, conceptions about being a physician, and self-perceived burnout. Students report benefits on their professional identity formation after participating in a required course on humanism. Empathy-building among peers is one valuable outcome of such curricula.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Requiring the Healer's Art Curriculum to Promote Professional Identity Formation Among Medical Students
- Creators
- Elizabeth C. Lawrence - University of New MexicoMartha L. Carvour - University of New MexicoChristopher Camarata - University of New MexicoEvangeline Andarsio - Wright State UniversityMichael W. Rabow - University of California, San Francisco
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of medical humanities, Vol.41(4), pp.531-541
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10912-020-09649-z
- PMID
- 32748226
- ISSN
- 1041-3545
- eISSN
- 1573-3645
- Number of pages
- 11
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2020
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984359822802771
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