Bearing Witness to Suffering and Social Justice: A Novel Multimodal Medical Humanities Course That Cultivates Compassionate Health Care.

WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin Pub Date : 2026-01-01

Jessica C Babal, Liana Eskola, Elizabeth A Fleming, Rory Bade, Meinkeng Acha-Morfaw, Jens Eickhoff, Nicole Nelson

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Background: Racism, sexism, ableism, addiction stigma, weight stigma, and imbalanced power structures in medicine threaten human health and well-being. Medical humanities education that addresses positionality and power in clinical care may enhance physicians' abilities to provide compassionate care.

Methods: Sixty medical students completed a medical humanities elective during the 2020-2021 through 2023-2024 academic years focus on suffering and social justice in medicine and completed pre- and post-course surveys.

Results: Post-course surveys showed increases in students' self-assessed knowledge about applying medical humanities practices to provide compassionate patient care (P < .001), plans to use medical humanities practices in their future career (P < .001), and intent to disseminate or share their medical humanities work (P < .001).

Discussion: This novel multimodal medical humanities curriculum exploring suffering and social justice fostered compassionate clinical care skills and intention to continually engage in humanities work.

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见证苦难与社会正义：一门培养富有同情心的医疗保健的新型多模式医学人文课程。

背景：医学中的种族主义、性别歧视、残疾歧视、成瘾污名、体重污名和不平衡的权力结构威胁着人类的健康和福祉。医学人文教育强调临床护理中的地位和权力，可以提高医生提供同情心护理的能力。方法：60名医学生在2020-2021至2023-2024学年期间完成了医学人文选修课，重点是医学中的痛苦和社会正义，并完成了课程前和课程后的调查。结果：课后调查显示，学生对应用医学人文实践提供富有同情心的病人护理的自我评估知识有所增加(P讨论：这门探索痛苦和社会正义的新型多模式医学人文课程培养了富有同情心的临床护理技能和继续从事人文工作的意愿。

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