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An Innovative Approach For Integrating Mandatory, Longitudinal Spirituality Training Into The Medical School Curriculum, David W. Fleenor, Holly G. Atkinson, Reena Karani, Susan Lerner, Staci Leisman, Deborah Marin
An Innovative Approach For Integrating Mandatory, Longitudinal Spirituality Training Into The Medical School Curriculum, David W. Fleenor, Holly G. Atkinson, Reena Karani, Susan Lerner, Staci Leisman, Deborah Marin
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Problem:
Most Americans indicate they are religious and/or spiritual and wish to have their beliefs taken into account when engaging with health care providers, yet gaps in medical education and health care practice remain. To underscore the importance of spirituality as a significant social determinant of health, a team at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York developed mandatory spirituality and health training for students integrated into all 4 years of the undergraduate medical education curriculum.
Approach:
From 2014 to 2020, a small group of faculty took an innovative approach, launching the initiative and expanding the …
It Could Be So Much Worse, Alexandra Juhasz, Pato Hebert
It Could Be So Much Worse, Alexandra Juhasz, Pato Hebert
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Conversation between longtime AIDS activists about longhauling with COVID-19, disclosure, shame, and the possibilities of COVID politics with photographs of the "COVID Body."