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Module1: Lesson 1: The Emergence of Modern Medicine | Innovation Through Tradition: Rediscovering the “Humanist” in the Medical Humanities | Read the content under the headings "Introduction: origin narratives of the medical humanities", "The studia humanitatis and the crisis of American medicine", and "Conclusion: innovation through tradition". (49 minutes) J Med Humanit - 2016 |
How Clinicians Integrate Humanism in their Clinical Workplace—‘Just Trying to Put Myself in their Human Being Shoes’ | Read the content under the headings Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion. (9 minutes) Perspectives on Medical Education - 2018 |
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Module 2: Lesson 1:The Epidemiological Transition | The Epidemiological Transition (or What We Died, Die and Will Die From) | Read the entire article. (8 minutes) IS Global: Barcelona Insitute for Public Health - 2017 |
Updating the Epidemiological Transition Model | Read the following sections: Introduction, Development of models with stages of transition, and Divergence from the western transition model. (18 minutes) Epidemiology and Infection - 2018 |
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Module 2: Lesson 2: The Impact of the Epidemiological Transition on Humanism in Health and Healthcare | Addressing Challenges in Humanistic Communication During COVID-19 Through Medical Education | Read the content under the following sections: Introduction, Humanism in Medical Education and Practice, and Discussion. (14 minutes) Frontiers - 2021 |
The End of Modern Medicine: The Evolution of Disease and Transformations in Medical Practice | Please read the entire article. (34 minutes) Journal of Healthcare, Science, and the Humanities - 2012 |
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Module 3: Lesson 1: Medicalization and Social Control | Medicalization Defined in Empirical Contexts – A Scoping Review | Read the content under the following sections: Background, Results, and Discussion. (23 minutes) International Journal of Health Policy and Management - 2020 |
Medicalization: A Historical Perspective | Read the entire article. (20 minutes) Journal of General and Family Medicine - 2017 |
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Module 3: Lesson 2: Medicalization and Overdiagnosis | Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine | Read the content under the headings, from "Introduction" to "The Dual Relationship Between Overdiagnosis and Medicalisation." (17 minutes) Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management - 2016 |
How to Distinguish Medicalization from Over-medicalization? | Read the content under the following sections: Abstract, Introduction, Various effects of medicalization and over‑medicalization, and Over‑medicalization: a pragmatic approach. (10 minutes) Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - 2018 |
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Module 4: Lesson 1: An Overview of the Biopsychosocial Model | The New Old (and Old New) Medical Model: Four Decades Navigating the Biomedical and Psychosocial Understandings of Health and Illness | Read the entire article from "Abstract" to "A Question of Method and Discipline: The Future of the Biopsychosocial Model through the Lens of Adolescence Medicine." (24 minutes) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - 2017 |
The Biopsychosocial Model and the New Medical Humanism | Read the content under the headings from "1. Engel’s biopsychosocial model" until " Updating the science and philosophy of the BPSM." (27 minutes) Archives de Philosophie Volume 83 Issue 4 - 2020 |
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Module 5: Lesson 1: The Historical Evolution of Bioethics | The Rise of Bioethics: A Historical Overview | Read the entire webpage. (27 minutes) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - 2018 |
Module 5: Lesson 2: Clinical Ethics Analysis | Jonsen’s Four Topics Approach as a Framework for Clinical Ethics Consultation | Read the content under the headings "Abstract", "Introduction","Results" "Discussion", and "Conclusion." (37 minutes) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - 2018 |
Module 6: Lesson 1: The Science of Empathy | Empathy, sympathy and compassion in healthcare: Is there a problem? Is there a difference? Does it matter? | Read the entire article. (24 minutes) Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - 2020 |
The Science of Empathy | Read the entire article. (14 minutes) Journal of Patient Experience - 2017 |
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Module 6: Lesson 2: Empathy in Patient Care | The Role of Empathy in Health and Social Care Professionals | Read the entire article. (22 minutes) Healthcare Journal - 2020 |
Module 7: Lesson 1: Working with literature | Three Things to Do With Stories Using Literature in Medical, Health Professions, and Interprofessional Education | Read the entire article. (28 minutes) Academic Medicine - 2015 |
Module 7: Lesson 2: Working with Visual Art | How Art Can Heal | Read the entire article. (17 minutes) American Scientist - 2020 |
The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature | Read the content under the heading "Visual Arts". (11 minutes) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - 2010 |
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Module 7: Lesson 3: Working with Poetry | More Than Words: Why Poetry is Good for Our Health | Read the entire web page and watch the Youtube video titled "Capturing Our Resilience in Poetry". (12 minutes) International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab) - 2022 |
National Poetry Month: Poetry and Medicine | Read the content under the headings from "Section One: The Expanding Awareness of Music in Healthcare," "Section Three: The Potential and Path to the Future of Music in Healthcare," and "Recommendations and Conclusions". (6 minutes) Unversity of St. Augustine for Health Sciences - 2022 |
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Module 7: Lesson 4: Working with Music | The Expanding Scope, Inclusivity, and Integration of Music in Healthcare: Recent Developments, Research Illustration, and Future Direction | Read the content under the headings from "Section One: The Expanding Awareness of Music in Healthcare," "Section Three: The Potential and Path to the Future of Music in Healthcare," and "Recommendations and Conclusions". (36 minutes) Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)- Healthcare Journal - 2021 |
Music, Computing, and Health: A Roadmap for the Current and Future Roles of Music Technology for Health Care and Well-Being | Read the content under the following sections: Abstract, Introduction, and Various Use Cases of Music Technology in Health Settings. (96 minutes) SAGE journals - 2021 |
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Module 8: Lesson 1: Narrative Medicine: Connecting with Patients | Role of narrative-based medicine in proper patient assessment | Read the entire article. (13 minutes) 2017 |
What is Narrative Based Medicine | Read the entire article (Content in English only). (17 minutes) Canadian Family Physician - 2018 |
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Empathy in patient care: from ‘Clinical Empathy’ to ‘Empathic Concern’ | Read the entire article. (57 minutes) Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - 2021 |
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Module 9: Lesson 1: Understanding Burnout in Healthcare: Causes and Consequences | Burnout in Healthcare Workers: Prevalence, Impact and Preventative Strategies. | Read the entire article. (29 minutes) Dove Press journal: Local and Regional Anesthesia - 2020 |
Burnout in United States Healthcare Professionals: A Narrative Review | Read the entire article. (20 minutes) Cureus - 2018 |
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Module 9: Lesson 2: Self-care and Patient Care | Developing resilience to combat nurse burnout | Read the entire article - 13 minutes The Joint Commission - 2019 |
Factors Related to Physician Burnout and Its Consequences: A Review: | Read the entire article - 20 minutes Behavioural Sciences Journal - 2018 |
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Effect of burnout among physicians on observed adverse patient outcomes: a literature review. | Read the entire article. (29 minutes) BMC Health Serv - 2021 |
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Module 9: Lesson 3: Empathy and Self-care at Odds?: Thinking Realistically and Critically | Empathy and Burnout in Medicine: Acknowledging Risks and Opportunities | Read the entire article. (10 minutes) Springer - 2018 |
"Goodbye … Through a Glass Door"Emotional Experiences of Working in COVID-19 Acute Care Hospital Environments. | Read the content under the headings " Background and Purpose", "Discussion", "Implications,". (14 minutes) SAGE Journals- Canadian Journal of Nursing Research - 2021 |
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Compassion and self-compassion in medicine: Self-care for the caregiver | Read the entire article. (16 minutes) Australian Medical Journal - 2016 |
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Module 10: Lesson 1: Problematics of Otherness | Ethics Explainer: The Other | Read the entire webpage. (8 minutes) The Bioethics Centre - 2017 |
Othering in the Nursing Context: A Concept Analysis | Read the content from "Inclusionary concepts" until "Alternatives to othering". (26 minutes) College of Nursing - 2017 |
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Module 11: Lesson 1: Global Health and Cross-Cultural Practice | Virtue and Care Ethics & Humanism in Medical Education: a Scoping Review | Read the contents under the heading "Background, Results, and Discussion". (7 minutes) BMC Medical Education - 2022 |
More Harm Than Good? The Questionable Ethics of Medical Volunteering and International Student Placements | Read the content from "Ethical Concerns in Medical Volunteering" until "Evaluating the outcome of medical volunteering on local health" (36 minutes) Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, published by BioMed Central - 2017 |
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Medical “Brain Drain” and Health Care Worker Shortages: How Should International Training Programs Respond? | Read the content under the heading from "Medical Brain Drain as Exploitation of Wealth Disparities" until "Funding and Policy Solutions to Medical Brain Drain" (12 minutes) AMA Journal of Ethics - 2016 |
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Module 11: Lesson 2: Issues of Class and Poverty | Explaining Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviours: A Review of Biopsychological Pathways Involving Stress and Inflammation | Read the following sections "2.1. Social inequality in health" "2.2. Social inequality in stress" "2.3. Social inequality in health behaviours,"'5.2. Different SES indicators may reflect different types of resources and adversities which may tap into different causal explanations of health behaviours" (31 minutes) Science Direct- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews - 2021 |
Module 11: Lesson 3: Race/Ethnictiy and Health | Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research | Read the following sections: Abstract, Racism and Health, Racial Residential Segregation, Epidemiological Evidence Linking Segregation to Health, Cultural Racism, Cultural Racism and Health and Discrimination. (23 minutes) National Library of Medicine: National Centre for Biotechnology Information - 2019 |
Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care | Read from the Introduction to Conclusion. (29 minutes) The Commonwealth Fund - 2021 |
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Presentation and Outcomes for Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19: Findings From the American Heart Association’s COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry | Please read Introduction, Discussion, and Conclusion. (11 minutes) AHA Journals - 2020 |
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Module 11: Lesson 4: The Health of Immigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Persons | Access to Health Care for Illegal Migrants: Ethical Implications of a New Health Policy in the UK | Read the entire article. (9 minutes) British Journal of General Practice - 2019 |
Barriers to Accessing Health Care Among Undocumented Migrants in Sweden - a Principal Component Analysis | Read the content under the heading "Background", "Barriers to health care", "Large need for health care and risk factors for illness" and "Discussion". (17 minutes) BMC Health Services Research - 2021 |
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Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health | Read the entire article. (4 minutes) Annual Review of Public Health - 2015 |
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Module 11: Lesson 5: Gender and Health | Gender Disparities in Clinical Practice: Are There Any Solutions? Scoping Review of Interventions to Overcome or Reduce Gender Bias in Clinical Practice (2020) | Read from the Introduction to Conclusion. (22 minutes) International Journal for Equity in Health - 2020 |
The Promises and Limitations of Gender-Transformative Health Programming with Men: Critical Reflections from the Field | Read the entire article. (47 minutes) Informa UK Limited, Taylor & Francis Group - 2015 |
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Module 11: Lesson 6: LGBTQ+ Persons and Health | Understanding the Health Needs of LGBT People | Read the report. (28 minutes) National LGBT Health Education Center, A project of the Fenway Institute - 2016 |
Health Inequities in LGBT People and Nursing Interventions to Reduce Them: A Systematic Review (2021) | ||
Module 11: Lesson 7: Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Persons | Caring for Ex-prisoners Presents Management Challenges | Read the entire article. (12 minutes) ACP Internist and American College of Physicians - 2017 |
What Does Health Justice Look Like for People Returning from Incarceration? | Read the content under the headings "Incarceration and Health in the United States" Assessing the Needs of All Persons and Populations Equally", "Recognize and Rectify Historical Health System Injustices, Advocate for the Provision of Resources According to Patient and Community Needs", "Conclusion" (11 minutes) American Medical Association - 2017 |
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Assessing Incarcerated Women’s Physical and Mental Health Status and Needs in a Swiss Prison: a Cross-Sectional Study | Read the Background, Discussion, and Conclusion. (22 minutes) Health and Justice Journal - Biomedcentral.com - 2022 |
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"Who Should Make Decisions for Unrepresented Patients Who Are Incarcerated? " | ||
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Do Prisoners Trust the Healthcare System? | Read the Background, Discussion, Limitations, and Conclusion. (17 minutes) Health and Justice Journal -Biomedcentral.com - 20221 |
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Module 11: Lesson 8: Disability, Health, and Healthcare | Disability: Definitions, Models, Experience | Read the content under the headings from "1. Models of Disability" until "1.3 Models, Decisions, and Policies". (18 minutes) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - 2022 |
Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability | Read the entire article. (13 minutes) AMA Journal of Ethics: Illuminating the Art of Medicine - 2018 |
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Prevalence of Disabilities and Health Care Access by Disability Status and Type Among Adults — United States, 2016 | Read the entire report. (13 minutes) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - 2016 |
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Module 11: Lesson 9: Health, Humanism, and Aging | Ageism in the Health Care System: Providers, Patients, and Systems | Read the content under the headings, from " Introduction" until "13.2.4 Self-Ageism in the Health Care Setting". (28 minutes) Springer Link: International Perspectives on Aging Book - 2018 |
Inequalities in Later Life: The Issue and the Implications for Policy and Practice | Read the report. (18 minutes) Centre for Ageing Better - 2017 |
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“Tho’ Much is Taken, Much Abides”: A Good Life Within Dementia | Read the entire article. (21 minutes) Wiley Online Library- The Hastings Center Report - 2018 |
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Module 11: Lesson 10: Children, Health, and Humanism | Connecting a Sociology of Childhood Perspective with the Study of Child Health, Illness and Wellbeing: Introduction | Read the content under the headings "Abstract", "Themes of this issue" "Theme 2: practices of children's health and wellbeing", "Theme 3 – Children as health actors". (23 minutes) Wiley Online Library- Sociology of Health and Illness Journal - 2015 |
Minimizing Pediatric Healthcare-Induced Anxiety and Trauma | Read the content from "Introduction" to " A new way to care". (18 minutes) World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics- NCBI - 2016 |
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Module 11: Lesson 11: Religion/Spirituality and Health | How Should Clinicians Respond to Requests from Patients to Participate in Prayer? | Read the webpage. (16 minutes) AMA Journal of Ethics - 2018 |
Defining Spirituality in Healthcare: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework | Read the content under the headings " Introduction" Connection: Narrower or Broader, Interpretation of Life: Meaning and Purpose, Beliefs, Practices, and Experiences, Spirituality Sensations, Spirituality as an Intrinsic Component of Human Beings and Proposed Framework for Spirituality in Healthcare. (22 minutes) Fronteirs in Psychology - 2021 |
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The Role of Spirituality and Religiosity in Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Integrative Review of the Scientific Literature | Read the content under the headings "Abstract", "Background" and "Discussion" (12 minutes) Springer Nature Switzerland - Journal of Religion and Health - 2022 |
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Module 12: Lesson 1: From cultural competence to cultural humility | Cultural Competency Interventions During Medical School: a Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis | Read the Abstract, Introduction, Discussion, Conclusion. (8 minutes) Springer Link - Journal of General Internal Medicine - 2019 |
Addressing Culture Within Healthcare Settings: The Limits of Cultural Competence and the Power of humility" | Read the entire article. (10 minutes) National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health - 2019 |
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Module 12: Lesson 2: Practices of Humility in Healthcare | Practicing Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in the Care of Diverse Patients | Read the entire article. (11 minutes) National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health - 2020 |
Not Missing the Opportunity: Strategies to Promote Cultural Humility Among Future Nursing Faculty | Read the entire article. (31 minutes) Science Direct - Journal of Professional Nursing - 2020 |
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Module 12: Lesson 3: From Cultural Humility to Structural Competency and Social Justice | Structural Competency in Health Care | Read the contents under the headings "Introduction", "Individual Level: Self-Reflection and Awareness", "Interpersonal Level: Patient Assessment and Care Planning", "Clinic/Institutional Level: Diverse Hiring and Staff Training", "Community Level: Collaboration", and "Summary". (13 minutes) PMC - 2022 |
Module 13: Lesson 1: The Future of Humanism in Medicine | Humanism increasingly important in a changing health care landscape | Read the entire article. (8 minutes) American Association of Medical Colleges - 2017 |
Is Medical Humanism a Humanism? | Read the entire article. (13minutes) In-Training.org - 2016 |
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Module 13: Lesson 2: Humanism and Technology: Threat or Opportunity | The Digital Transformation of Medicine Can Revitalize the Patient-Clinician Relationship | Read the entire article. (12 minutes) Springer Nature Limited - 2018 |
Pursuing Humanistic Medicine in a Technological Age | Read the entire article. (16 minutes) Journal of Patient Experiences - 2017 |
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Module 13: Lesson 3: Directions Forward | Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup | Read the articles related to humanism in healthcare. (16 minutes) Gold Foundation for Humanistic Healthcare - 2022 |
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