MD Aware: A Mindful Medical Practice Course Guide

Description

This unique, step-by-step guide for instructors offers a comprehensive approach to teaching pre-clerkship medical students -- as well as residents and even experienced physicians -- about the transformational impact of mindful medical practice, or mindful whole person care. Indeed, integrating contemplative practices – such as “presence” and “relationship” -- into medical education is an established but still rapidly growing approach to bringing experiential learning to medical students. This book gives the rationale for administering a mindful medical practice (MMP) course, details the moment to moment process for each of the 7 classes that are outlined, and summarizes a way forward for instructors. Pages of the book can be copied and used in class with students, and there are appendices that include helpful tools a teacher can immediately copy and hand out in each class. Handy, one-page templates are provided at the end of each chapter for teachers to use as a guide while teaching each class. A unique contribution to the medical literature and the increasing focus on mindful medical practice, MD Aware: A Mindfulness-Based Whole Person Care Course Guide for Physicians is not only the ideal resource for teachers interested in setting up an MMP course in a medical school; it is also an invaluable practical guide for any clinician hoping to learn more about the importance and benefits of offering mindful medical practice to patients – and to themselves as healers. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Tom A. Hutchinson, Stephen Liben)....Pages 1-7 Whole Person Teaching and Learning (Stephen Liben)....Pages 9-23 Class 1: Attention and Awareness (Stephen Liben)....Pages 25-38 Class 2: Congruent Communication (Tom A. Hutchinson)....Pages 39-49 Class 3: Awareness and Decision-Making (Stephen Liben)....Pages 51-61 Class 4: Clinical Congruence (Tom A. Hutchinson)....Pages 63-71 Class 5: Building Resilience (Stephen Liben)....Pages 73-88 Class 6: Responding to Suffering (Stephen Liben)....Pages 89-100 Class 7: Mindful Congruent Practice in Clerkship and Beyond (Tom A. Hutchinson)....Pages 101-110 Live and In Person: One Class from Moment to Moment (Tom A. Hutchinson)....Pages 111-125 Mindful Medical Practice and the Good Doctor (Stephen Liben)....Pages 127-137 End-of-Course Essays: Students’ Responses to the Course (Tom A. Hutchinson)....Pages 139-157 Back Matter ....Pages 159-188