| These lectures address diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building, during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. Due to public interest, we've made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch. |
| | |  | | Suzanne Poirier, PhD
Professor Emerita of Literature and Medical Education, UIC College of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Medical Humanities & Bioethics, Northwestern University
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Hypochondria, Narrative, and KnowledgeMedical Education and the Emotional Development of the Physician
Thursday, November 3, 2011Medical students are (usually) young adults, busy with the hard work of "growing up" at the same time they are undertaking a demanding educational odyssey. This odyssey includes discovering their own ways to establish working--and living--relationships with patients, peers, teachers, family, friends, and evenn themselves. Memoirs about the years of medical school and residency offer a unique window into the emotional challenges of becoming a physican that often go unaddressed in the medical curriculum. The Embodied Physician
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Learning medicine engages not only the mind but also the body and all its senses. From a student's entrance into the gross antomy lab to a senior resident's performance of a procedure that has long been routine, the doctor's body is registering and responding to everything he or she encounters. And this body records a vulnerability that is an integral part of medical education. Memoirs of medical education offer insights into the embodied nature of medical education and practice, a process often unrecognized by the writers themselves. | | |
