The Healer’s Art
The Healer’s Art is a spring semester elective directed towards first and second year medical students that addresses the human dimension of medicine over five evening sessions. Each three hour session is divided into a large-group and small-group experience. Small groups are facilitated by medical school physicians. Each session builds upon the insights and content of the previous session. Major themes of the course include:
- Sustaining idealism and altruism
- Medicine as a calling
- Cultivating compassion
- Healing loss
- Learning tools to prevent stress and burnout
“In The Healer’s Art course, I learned it is okay to love my patients.”
-M2 student
“The Healer’s Art renewed my sense of honor, awe, and responsibility in medicine.”
-M1 student
Spring 2015 Course Dates
| Date & Time | Topic |
| 1/21 6:30-9:30pm | Restoring Balance |
| 1/28 6:30-9:30pm | Sharing |
| 2/4 6:30-9:30pm | Sharing |
| 2/11 6:30-9:30pm | Mystery and Awe in Medicine |
| 2/25 6:30-9:30pm | Medicine as a Calling |
Enrollment is limited. The Course is sponsored by the Department of Family Medicine and is directed by Katherine Gergen-Barnett, MD. To register for the class, or if you have any questions, please email Florence Laforest, course administrator, at flafores@bu.edu.
