Medicine and the Humanities
Program Overview
Muhlenberg College has a long tradition of excellence in liberal arts and premedical education. Today’s practicing physicians often lament that the art of medicine is becoming deemphasized, with an ever-increasing focus on cost-reduction efficiencies, payment-driven metrics, and top-down clinical practice guidelines. This depersonalization of the doctor-patient relationship is widely considered to be a significant contributor to physician burnout. Providing physicians an opportunity outside of daily practice to reconnect with the humanistic aspects of medicine is a potential remedy to this area of concern. It may help promote increased physician wellness/career satisfaction.
The mission of this program is to offer a noncredit series of lectures focused on the medical humanities to help address physician burnout and the desire of physicians to expand and enhance their understanding of themselves as medical practitioners and the experience of the patients and families they serve.
Program Structure
This program will consist of two evening lectures in Spring 2024. Each lecture will be roughly 2 hours in duration preceded by a reception with wine and heavy hors d'oeuvres. Meetings will be in person at The Great Room in Seegers Union, on the college campus. Attendance fee is $199 per session and $349 for both. The lecture dates are as follows:
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