Review these Key Ethics Terms:

Read: Excerpts from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Reading Aristotle is hard! But we think you can do it! It will create some discomfort for everyone. We do NOT expect you to master these concepts – it is more important in this session to be open, brave, vulnerable, and interested in growth than it is to be ‘right’. See what you can gather from the reading and use the PDF’s highlighting and prompts to guide you if you’re having trouble.

Consider: the role of empathy in medical student education while reading Walking a mile in their patients’ shoes:empathy and othering in medical students’ education. The article discusses the barriers for medical education to promote empathy and offers up a paradigm that may help trainees deal with these barriers and possible ideas of how they could be surmounted.

 

Read over this Facebook Post and reflect on how values and virtues can or cannot be demonstrated on social media. This was a post by a fellow student.

 

If you’re feeling eager for more… explore this article on How to Teach Doctors Empathy which talks about the growing emphasis on empathy training for health care professionals and describes a few such trainings across the country.