Healing in medicine, lessons from clinicians and patients

2014-09-10

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

At a time of sweeping transitions in health care, medical students and young physicians are eager for guidance as to how best to apply their knowledge and skills in caring for patients. In clinical settings, and especially in primary care, who might be the best role models for young trainees to emulate? What skills and traits do the best clinicians use to create healing relationships with patients? How do clinicians become "healers" -that is, practitioners effective in making the patient-professional relationship itself have active therapeutic potential? Professor Larry Churchill and colleagues at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have examined these matters, interviewing both clinicians and patients on the vital question of what actually makes for a therapeutic encounter, even in the context of a stressed and changing health care system. 

In this Medical Center Hour, Professor Churchill will present his studies' findings as a prelude to disscussion of the implications for medical ethics and medical education and for establishing truly "patient-centered" practices.

Churchill, Larry Raymond (Speaker); Hunt, Stephanie Davis (Speaker); Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

Professional-Patient Relations; Patient-Centered Care; Patient Outcome Assessment

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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1 online resource (1 video file, 60:19 min.) : sound, color

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