By Dr. Rodney Sharkey The Power of Drama I recently hosted Ways of Being: The Value of Theater in Medical Practice, a workshop provided for medical practitioners in Doha, Qatar. The objectives of the workshop were two-fold: to illustrate drama’s...
A guest blog by Dr. Rodney Sharkey “Ways of Being” is a workshop, led by associate professor Rodney Sharkey, and put together by Humanities faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) for the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) wing with a view...
Innovations in Global Health Professions Education (IGHPE) recently met with Hanof Ahmed, a Med 4 student at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q), to discuss her experience of art and the humanities while at medical school. Hanof recently contributed some of her...
Prof. Ari Fahrial Syam is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Universitas Indonesia. IGHPE was very pleased to have Prof. Fahrial Syam as part of our Kuala Lumpur 2018 conference, where he discussed how we should go about “Preparing...
It is increasingly common to see health professionals writing for patients: Dr. Denise Howard discusses her book The essence of you: your guide to gynecologic health [1] in the IGHPE podcast. The book was written in response to the lack of health...
Dr. Randi Diamond, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital, describes her work and reflects on the nature of palliative care the latest addition to IGHPE's podcast series. Dr....
Expression of empathy is an essential part of successful physician-patient communication, a topic discussed in the previous blog post. Moreover, patients file fewer malpractice complaints, and are more satisfied and compliant with the therapy, if doctors express empathy3. But empathy...
Throughout medical school, students collect loosely connected islands of knowledge (even in integrated curricula) about health and disease. Later, in clinical practice, they encounter ‘whole’ human individuals, with conditions that have complex roots and effects within their lives. Thus, future...
