Advancing compassionate care in family medicine
Cynthia’s work found a surprising absence of language about compassionate care in current family medicine standards. It gave us a better sense of where family medicine is doing well and where it can improve.
Read MoreMitigating and managing compassion fatigue in health professionals
This fellowship focused on understanding the prevalence of compassion fatigue in nursing and medical students. Tara and Maryse designed and delivered training workshops to offer health providers the ability to more fully care for themselves.
Read MoreUsing incident narratives during residency to develop physicians’ compassion
Mala’s fellowship focused on how to increase physicians’ compassion during their residency, a stressful time in their training.
Read MoreUsing Life Process Transformation™ (LPT) programs to build resilience
Janet has pioneered work that focuses on the self-care and self-identity of healthcare professionals. During her fellowship, she used Life Process Transformation™ (LPT) workshops to help students and faculty learn how to meet their self-care needs.
Read MoreIntroducing narrative medicine into undergraduate and postgraduate curricula at Western University
Shannon was pleased to use her AMS fellowship for curricular development in medical education. She was particularly interested in using narrative medicine, which bridges the gap between patients and providers.
Read MoreCeLT: Compassion in e-Learning and Teaching
The CeLT project investigated the experiences of learners and teachers and developed approaches to caring that can be fostered and taught in and around the use of e-health technologies. Clinicians learn through experience how to navigate the patient clinical encounter with a computer screen present. Observation of clinicians suggests that some are highly successful in…
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