Humanities in Context (HIC) 2 Credits/Maximum of 2

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The goal of HIC is to support the cultivation of humanistic sensitivity, which involves: - Noticing that there is a humanities issue - Adapting strategy and behavior to the humanities issue - Reflecting on the effectiveness of the strategy and behavior - Reorienting and reflecting to develop new approaches for the future Humanistic sensitivity involves looking outward toward professional practice and inward at one's own professional development. HIC is intended to be tightly connected to the care of patients; a practical, more so than theoretical, course. Toward this end, the concurrent organ system PBL cases will serve as the springboard for HIC learning most weeks. In this way, we will approach course topics through a single rich narrative description, and then zoom out to widen our view. The frame of the course is to apply humanistic sensitivity strategies to understand the experiences of the doctor and the patient within the societal context of medicine. Key themes for exploring these experiences will include: - Professional identity formation and wellbeing - Patient as person - Ethics - Critical Consciousness At the end of this course, we hope that you will be able to apply humanistic sensitivity in Clerkships and other educational settings to notice how a humanities issue is impacting providers, patients, or the clinical context, and then have some tools to begin to respond to it.