The play's the thing: teaching leadership with creative arts

2014-04-02

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Despite their reliance on technical knowledge that requires mastery, medicine, law, and business are all deeply human professions. Medicine is more than body repair, law more than legal systems, business more than the physics of money. While professional education necessarily must be at the cutting edge of technical expertise, it must remember too the human nature—including the values, emotions, and richly complicated lives—of professionals and professional organizations. In this Medical Center Hour, Professor Ed Freeman from UVA's Darden School of Business demonstrates how the creative arts and humanities can be embedded in professional education to address and actively teach ethical conduct in professional life and leadership of complex professional organizations. What lessons in course design, student engagement, and classroom outcomes might medical educators draw from Professor Freeman's courses, "Business Ethics through Literature" and "Leadership, Ethics, and Theater"?

A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, UVA

Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator); Freeman, R. Edward, 1951- (Speaker); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

Teaching--ethics; Teaching--methods; Humanities

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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