Spirituality and medicine. A workshop for medical students and residents.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Governing bodies for medical education recommend that spirituality and medicine be incorporated into training.

Aim

To pilot a workshop on spirituality and medicine on a convenience sample of preclinical medical students and internal medicine residents and determine whether content was relevant to learners at different levels, whether preliminary evaluation was promising, and to generate hypotheses for future research.

Setting

Private medical school and university primary care internal medicine residency program, both in the Northeast.

Curriculum description

The authors designed and implemented a required 2-hour workshop for all second-year medical students and a separate required 1.5-hour workshop for all primary care internal medicine house staff.

SUBMITTER: Barnett KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1484787 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature