New humanities certificate program open to physicians

The McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics is accepting applications for a new certificate program open to all physicians.

The Medical Humanities Workforce Training Program for Physicians will explore contexts, experiences, and critical conceptual issues in medicine and health care, while supporting professional identity formation. Doctors will recover and discover creative aspects of themselves through literature, art, history, philosophy, theater, ethics, and more.

“This program is aimed at physician self-development and renewal,” said Nathan Carlin, PhD, director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics and Samuel E. Karff, DHL Chair. “We have found many physicians embrace the humanities to reconnect with what drew them to medicine in the first place.”

The 24-month program is cohort style and primarily virtual, with two semester-long courses each year. Participants will attend live virtual classes once or twice a month, two in-person weekends, and asynchronous online and self-directed learning. The courses include Introduce to Medical Humanities; Philosophy, Medical Ethics, and Clinical Ethics; Narrative Medicine; and History, Advocacy, and Medicine.

Tuition for the whole program is $4,000 ($2,000 per year), and applications will open Jan. 15, 2025, and close once the cohort is full. For more information, please see the website.

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