The Healer’s Art
UCONJ 565 Autumn 2021
*Do you sometimes feel too isolated during your health sciences education?
*Do you find it difficult at times to remember the reasons you chose to pursue a career in the health sciences?
*Have you found that it seems necessary to leave a good part of yourself outside the walls of health sciences?
*Are you determined to avoid the pitfalls and behaviors of “pessimistic clinicians”?
*How does one stay open to intrigue and awe within healthcare?
If these questions stir your interest, and you are a graduate/professional UW Health Sciences student, please join us for five Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:30 PM on Sept 28, Oct 5, 12, 19, and 26. We will meet virtually over Zoom. We use a large group and small group format. This course is intended for students from all health professional training programs at UW.
The Healer’s Art elective (as developed at the UCSF School of Medicine by Rachel Remen, MD) is now offered in over 60 health professional (medical, nursing, physician assistant, veterinary, pharmacy, etc) schools in the U.S. and more than a half a dozen health sciences schools internationally. For more perspective on Dr Remen’s work, please take a look at her 1996 book of essays: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal and the Healer’s Art.
website: http://www.ishiprograms.org/programs/medical-educators-students/
Each week, students will be asked to engage in self-reflective work and to read Kitchen Table Wisdom. At the end of the course, students will be asked to submit a one-age reflection. There are no exams or graded assignments.
Finding meaning in one’s work is the antecedent to commitment and service. The course will help you to gain skills that facilitate the discovery of meaning in your work over the course of a career in health care.
To obtain your add code for registration please email Rachel Lazzar at rlazzar@uw.edu
