In this episode of M.ED: Medical Education for the Practicing Clinician, I had the pleasure to interview Gretchen Case, Ph.D., and Susan Sample, Ph.D., MFA.

Gretchen A. Case is Chief of the Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics. She received a BA in Speech Communication and History and an MA in Communication Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and a PhD in Performance Studies from UC, Berkeley. Dr. Case's research and teaching interests are in the medical humanities (aka healthcare humanities): the many ways in which the arts and humanities intersect with the medical arts and sciences.

Susan J. Sample is an assistant professor in the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Internal Medicine; Writer-in-Residence at the Huntsman Cancer Institute; and associate instructor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the College of Humanities at the University of Utah. She received her BA in philosophy from Whitman College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona. She completed her Ph.D. in communication, focusing on rhetoric and medicine, from the U of U. Her research explores the rhetorical ways physicians and patients use narrative when writing about experiences with patients at the end of life.

In this episode, we discuss the intersection of humanities and medicine. What it means to practice medicine centered around the human condition, questions to ask around our biases, and to experience clinical practice as an opportunity to understand suffering, joy, and grief as much as it is an opportunity to learn about the science of modern medicine. Medical humanities remind practicing clinicians to look and discover their inner artist.

On our website, you will find links to articles related to the Medical Humanities. As always, free CME credit is available on the website as well. Please enjoy!

You can visit the website at: https://medicine.utah.edu/students/programs/md/curriculum/ruute/preceptor/cme-podcast.php

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M.ED POD — CME for the Practicing ClinicianBy University of Utah HealthMar 02, 2021