Highlights of the talk by Dr. Zack Loveless from the Hyde Park Institute at the University of Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom.
In this talk, Loveless described a curricular initiative that helps medical trainees hone their virtues of character – including practical wisdom – and sustain their guiding values and well-being. The yearlong course is grounded in an Aristotelian conception of virtue and draws on physician experiences to highlight and discuss common challenges faced in medical practice (e.g. delivering bad news), the qualities that prepare one to persevere through such pressures (compassion, courage, honesty), and ways physicians have failed or succeeded in aptly navigating such situations in the past. Research paired with the course, demonstrated students who participated in the training increased in wisdom, wise reasoning, epistemic humility, and life satisfaction, while peer counterparts decline.
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