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The HeART of Empathy: Using the Visual Arts in Medical Education

Primary Author: Florence Gelo, Drexel University College of Medicine

The Heart of Empathy video, and its accompanying Facilitator's Guide, captures Dr. Gelo's technique of using the visual arts to teach medical students and residents how to emotionally prepare for and deal with their patients' suffering and dying.

As medical students and residents view the suffering portrayed in the paintings, the facilitator helps them to articulate and recognize their emotional reactions. Through focused observation and expression of feelings in a non-judgmental humanistic setting, students may cultivate the ability to acknowledge and address the emotional lives of their patients.

Inspired by her experience as a Philadelphia Museum of Art tour guide, Dr. Gelo began to notice the emotional impact of paintings on the viewer, and imagined their use as a powerful teaching resource in medical education. For five years, Dr. Gelo has introduced small groups of Drexel University College of Medicine students and residents to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where they view and discuss paintings that depict death and dying. This unique experience has been captured in The Heart of Empathy.

The accompanying Facilitator's guide includes program models, resources and suggestions for classroom use.

Date Last Modified 11/01/2008 Video, Faculty Development materials, Manual/guide

Kindness and the end of life

Primary Author: Paul Rousseau, VA Medical Center, Phoenix

Brief article from the Western Journal of Medicine (Volume 174, Issue 4) discussing ways physicians can exhibit kindness to patients at the end of life, even when facing their own sense of failure or fear.

Date Last Modified 04/01/2001 Article

A Lion in the House DVD Modules for Health Care Education

Primary Author: A Lion in the House, Community Media Productions, Inc.

A compelling set of teaching modules is available from the Emmy Award-winning documentary about children with cancer, A LION IN THE HOUSE. Based on real-life case studies, where things do not always go so well, the stories offer a forum to consider and discuss approaches to helping families navigate life and death issues related to cancer.

The Case Studies in Spirituality and Childhood Cancer Module offers specific, complicated case studies around issues of spirituality during a pediatric medical crisis. The Institute of Medicine defines pediatric palliative care to include the spiritual needs of a family, with a broad view of spirituality as the search for meaning and purpose in life and in death. Many families rely on spiritual resources in times of health-related crises, especially at end-of-life. Yet the majority of medical caregivers do not address issues of spirituality with their patients, with many feeling ill-equipped to do so. This module offers the insight of several veteran pediatric oncologists around spirituality issues.

-Each DVD module contains mini movies shot over a course of six years, competencies & objectives, discussion questions, a recommended resource list, and a PowerPoint presentation.

Date Last Modified 04/01/2010 Video, Case example/study, Clinical practice guidelines, Course curriculum, Website

New Medicine Educational Training Clips

Primary Author: The Bravewell Collaborative

Six 5-minute training videos that address the patient-provider relationship and the importance of integrative medicine. The videos use footage filmed for The New Medicine and can be viewed on the website or downloaded as Quicktime files. The titles of the videos are:

- Being Ill is a Transformative Experience
- A Patients Sense of Abandonment
- Every Patient Comes to a Doctor for One Thing
- Listening to the Story is Critical
- Maeves Story: One Patients Experience with the Wrong Doctor
- Maeves Story: The Resolution

Date Last Modified Video, Website

Patient Perspectives on Spirituality and the Patient-Physican Relationship

Primary Author: Randy S. Herbert, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Article from the Journal of General Internal Medicine describing an in-depth study of 22 patients hospitalized with a life-threatening illness. The authors found that all participants stressed the importance of physician empathy, but physician-initiated conversation without a strong patient-physician relationship was viewed as inappropriate.

Date Last Modified 10/16/2001 Article