IN THIS ISSUE

  • Thank a Resident Day is today! GHHS spreads celebration of resident physicians
  • Register for March 2 Gold Human InSight Webinar with 2 amazing nursing leaders
  • Meet stellar Black leaders of humanism in healthcare in this Gold series
  • Dr. Marie-Ève Goyer named 2021 AFMC-Gold Humanism Award honoree
  • 2021 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest is open
  • Call for poster proposals for the Humanism & Healing conference
  • Episode #3 is out on the Gold Connection podcast on the GHHS Solidarity Week
  • Mark your calendars for the Gold Annual Gala: June 10
  • Golden Glimmer #7: Residents, share your art & creative outlets
  • Gold Student Summer Fellow applications are due March 26
  • Research Roundup: 10 recently published studies on humanism in healthcare
  • Cultivate your attention in the next Mindful Practice retreat-like online workshop
  • The Patient & the Practitioner in the Age of Technology series 
  • Bonus: 5 links we recommend
Wow! More than 250 institutions participated in this year's Thank a Resident Day! In just four years, this special annual celebration created by the Gold Humanism Honor Society to shine a light on the importance of the residency staff has grown leaps and bounds. Medical students at GHHS chapters and healthcare institutions are encouraged to show their gratitude and appreciation for resident physicians. Learn more about Thank a Resident Day and what what GHHS chapters, hospitals, and other institutions have done in previous years.

Follow along today on Twitter with the hashtag #ThankaResident Day or 2021 Thank a Resident Day tweet collection. If you are posting your GHHS chapter's or organization's activities, please tag the Gold Foundation (@GoldFdtn on Twitter and Instagram).
In the current environment of a global pandemic and national social unrest, resilience is needed to face the challenges of daily life. In this Gold Human InSight Webinar fireside chat, Dr. Cynthia Sweeney of The DAISY Foundation and Dr. Cynda Hylton Rushton of Johns Hopkins University will examine the issues nurses face on the front line of care, as witnesses to a dynamic and often chaotic environment for practice. They will explore how various dimensions of resilience can be resources to meet the challenges of their everyday practice and how meaningful recognition of extraordinary compassionate care delivered in this environment fuels and leverages resilience.

The Gold Human InSight Webinars are virtual innovative sessions that the Gold Foundation has hosted with its wonderful partners in humanism. The 2020-2021 theme is “Care, Compassion, and Collaboration during the Dual Pandemic.” If you are interested in collaborating with the Gold Foundation on a webinar, please contact Host Pia Pyne Miller, MPH, Senior Director for Strategy and Business Development, at pmiller@gold-foundation.org
Gold February series honors Black leaders in healthcare
During February, the Gold Foundation has been honoring Black leaders of humanism in healthcare and their amazing work through a series on social media. Each of these leaders has made great contributions and exemplifies humanism in healthcare. They are active in wide-ranging efforts, from launching a new podcast to gathering PPE for COVID-19 teams to leading the collection of art creating in the pandemic.

We hope you will follow along and follow these leaders and support their work in the future. Learn more about Dr. Kellie Bryant, Dr. Kimberly Manning, Janine Inez, Lash Nolen, and Gisel Bello.

Look for several more Black History Month posts still to come as the month comes to a close. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Dr. Marie-Ève Goyer, a leader in caring for people with addiction and an exemplar of humanism in healthcare, was recently selected as the 2021 AFMC-Gold Humanism Award and Lecture honoree. Dr. Goyer will be honored in April at the Canadian Conference on Medical Education and will be presenting at a session along with 2020 AFMC-Gold Humanism Award recipient Dr. Jillian Horton.

Dr. Goyer has cared for at-risk and underserved populations throughout her career, both globally in Mali, Kenya, Tanzania, Haiti and other countries, and in Quebec Province and Montreal. She served on the Board of Directors of Doctors of the World Canada for many years, and is a medical advisor to the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services on addiction and homelessness services. She is a family physician at the new Notre-Dame Hospital in the Addiction and Urban Medicine Department and has played a leading role in care for patients with opioid dependence. Because of her work, the University of Montreal medical school has a mandatory week within the curriculum to consider social medicine, which includes visits to patients at sites such as prisons and shelters.

Read the full announcement here in English or in French.
The annual Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest asks medical and nursing students to reflect on a time in which they or a team member worked to ensure that humanism was at the core of care. This year's prompt is a quote from Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.

The winning essays are published in Academic Medicine, published by AAMC, and the Journal of Professional of Nursing, published by AACN.

Please pass this opportunity on to nursing and medical students!

Deadline is March 15.

Are you working on a project or study related to humanism in healthcare? Share your work in a Poster Session at the upcoming Humanism & Healing: Structural Racism and Its Impact on Medicine, hosted by the Gold Humanism Honor Society.


Mark your calendar for May 6-8 to join the entire Gold community at this virtual conference. Learn about the work our GHHS chapters have done for the 2020-2021 National Initiative, hear keynotes from inspiring speakers, and participate in workshops with one another as we explore structural racism and its impact on healthcare. Even more recorded sessions and videos will be available to watch at your convenience from April 26 to May 10.

Learn more about Humanism & Healing: Structural Racism and Its Impact on Medicine virtual conference, hosted by GHHS. If your GHHS chapter is interested in sharing its work at this event, please contact Louisa Tvito, GHHS Director.
Episode 3 focuses the 2021 GHHS Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care. GHHS Director Louisa Tvito interviews chapter leaders and advisors about their plans for Solidarity Week and speaks to members from the Ohio State University's Medical School and University of South Alabama's College of Medicine on how to utilize social media in a year full of social distancing.

Listen to this and all episodes on our website, on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Bonus: Check out this tweet collection from 2021 Solidarity Week and catch the activities, events, profiles, and much more from our GHHS chapters!
Join us on June 10 at the Annual Gala as we award the National Humanism in Medicine Medals to three extraordinary leaders: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Wayne Riley, and Dr. Eric Topol. This gathering (virtual this year) is a special time to bring together the Gold community of clinicians, students, healthcare leaders, patients, deans, and other passionate supporters of the human connection in healthcare.The 2021 Gala will also honor hundreds of nurses, doctors, and healthcare professionals selected by their institutions. Dr. Fauci will accept his medal on behalf of them and all U.S. healthcare team members for their immense contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please mark your calendar!
Read the full announcement of the honorees & fill out this form to be notified when Gala tickets and sponsorships are available.
In honor of Thank a Resident Day, Golden Glimmer No. 7 is an opportunity for residents to share the creative outlets have helped them during the pandemic.

If you are a resident, we’d love for you to share some examples of your creative outlets, whether it’s drawing, painting, photography, reading, writing, or another form of expression!
Applications are now being accepted for the 2021 Gold Student Summer Fellowship program, which offers opportunities for medical students to complete a research or service project related to community health. Projects must be focused on understanding and/or enhancing culturally competent practice and developing skills to become a compassionate, relationship-centered physician.

Learn more & apply today. Deadline: March 26
The Gold Foundation is delighted to publish another beautiful piece of writing from a Gold Writing Workshop participant, Dr. Laura Vater. The essay "What She Carried" emerged from an exercise during the fall workshop with author Judith Hannan.

It begins: "Julie carried the news of two diagnoses, coming just weeks after burying her son: Multiple myeloma and amyloidosis were the unfamiliar words that finally explained her decline. She first welcomed the diagnosis, then despaired."

Read "What She Carried" by Dr. Laura Vater.
The latest edition of Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup features 10 recently published papers on humanism in healthcare

These papers tackle important topics, including:
 
  1. Can faculty disclosure of mental health history decrease the stigma of mental illness among resident physicians?
  2. How do racial differences in patient perceptions of healthcare interactions impact clinical outcomes in diabetes?
  3. How do infectious disease outbreaks affect the mental health of clinicians?


If you would like to receive an email alert when future Research Roundups are published, please sign up here.
Mindful Practice co-founders Dr. Ron Epstein and Dr. Mick Krasner have shifted their transformative workshops online. The next Mindful Practice Workshop will be held Wednesday, April 28, through Saturday, May 1. Sessions begin 9 a.m. and run till 5:30 p.m. EST.
 
This retreat-like workshop is designed to improve the quality of care that clinicians provide while improving their own resilience and well-being. It offers an experiential learning environment, with a focus on developing the capacity for self-awareness in stressful and demanding situations. No prior experience is required; however, experience with meditation or other contemplative practices is desirable.

Early-bird pricing available until March 31. Use the code GOLD0421 for 5% off.
Join The Alpert Medical School for a virtual conference series on the impact of the electronic healthcare record and health information technologies on the patient-practitioner relationship. The conference is led in part by Dr. Elizabeth Toll, a GHHS Advisory Council Member, Gold grantee and long-time supporter.

The fourth of five sessions, "Relationships Matter More Than Ever, and They Are Changing; Addressing Disparities," will be held on March 5. CME credits are available.

SPECIAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH EDITION
Still reading? A bonus for you: 5 links we recommend
[1] Nurses You Should Know, an initiative to raise awareness of the contributions of nurses of color by sharing their stories; follow @knownurses on Twitter | Read

[2] "Seven things organisations should be doing to combat racism" by Dr. Esther Choo in The Lancet | Read

[3] "The Performance of 'Antiracism' Curricula" by Dr. Kevin J. Gutierrez in the New England Journal of Medicine | Read

[4] The Nocturnists Podcast's "Black Voices in Healthcare" series, executive produced by Gold Trustee Dr. Kimberly Manning | Listen

[5] Anti-Racism Daily, a newsletter with a daily action to help dismantle white supremacy. Each day in February, the project is also publishing a separate special virtual exhibition, 28 Days of Black History. | Subscribe

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