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Inculcating Jesuit Values via Medical Humanities

Inculcating Jesuit Values via Medical Humanities. Thomas J. Hansen, MD Jesuit Medical School Conference 2011. Creighton Medical Humanities. To be more explicit about our Jesuit tradition at Creighton University School of Medicine as it applies to medicine. How to do this to Gen Y?.

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Inculcating Jesuit Values via Medical Humanities

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  1. Inculcating Jesuit Values via Medical Humanities Thomas J. Hansen, MD Jesuit Medical School Conference 2011

  2. Creighton Medical Humanities • To be more explicit about our Jesuit tradition at Creighton University School of Medicine as it applies to medicine. • How to do this to Gen Y?

  3. Creighton Medical Humanities • Generation Y • Opportunity for Gen Y to help create a course for their generation • Opportunity for Gen Y to integrate Ignatian Values into Medical Education

  4. Generation Y • 7 Defining Characteristics • Special • Sheltered • Confident • Conventional • Team-oriented • Achieving • Pressured • Deloitte Development LCC 2005

  5. Generation Y • Beliefs • Education is good • Integrity is admirable • Parents/teachers are role models • Deloitte Development LCC 2005

  6. Generation Y • At school • Inductive discovery- learn better through discovery than being told • Technology is expected • However, the activity is more important than the technology behind it • Prefer a group activity to Power Point or a formal lecture. • Deloitte Development LCC 2005

  7. Generation Y • At work • Work well with friends and on teams • Partner well with mentors • Resourceful, innovative • Impatient; comfortable with speed and change • Expect respect • Value guidance • Thrive on flexibility • Deloitte Development LCC 2005

  8. Generation Y • Sixty Minutes Link • “Transform workplace into a nicer place to be.” • “Transform medical environment into one embodying Ignatian Values”

  9. CUSOM Medical Humanities • Ignatian Values • Contemplatives in Action • Cura Personalis • Magis • Men and Women for Others • Method: • Speakers • On-line group activities • On-line Reflections • Multi-Media

  10. How does Ignatian Values Apply to Medicine? • Ignatian Values in Continuing Medical Education • School of Medicine • Undergraduate Medical Education • Graduate Medical Education • Continuing Medical Education

  11. M1 - Contemplatives in Action • Term comes from GC 32 • “If we wish to continue to be faithful to this special character of our vocation…we must “contemplate” our world as Ignatius did his, that we may hear anew the anguish and aspirations of men and women.” • Reflection, Vocation, Mission

  12. M1 - Contemplatives in Action • Who are the Jesuits and the Sisters of Mercy? • History of St. Joseph Hospitals • Mission of CU, SOM, St. Joseph Hospitals • What is your mission? • Photostory, Facebook • Introduction to Jesuit Spirituality • Praying with the senses • Service learning • On-line reflections and small groups

  13. M2 - Cura Personalis • Latin for “Care of the Entire Individual” • Originally used to describe the responsibility of the Jesuit Superior to care for each man in the community with his unique gifts, challenges, needs and possibilities.

  14. M2 - Cura Personalis • Mind • Body • Spirit • On-line reflection • Caring for patients in mind/body/spirit • Not just treating a disease

  15. M3 - Magis • Ad Majorem Dei Gloria (AMDG) • Latin “For the Greater Glory of God” • Motto of the Society of Jesus • Believed to be coined by St. Ignatius. • Reflects the idea that any work that is not evil can be meritorious for the spiritual life if it is performed with this intention, even things considered normally indifferent.

  16. M3 - Magis • Sufi Parable • On-line reflection based on the competencies and their rotations.

  17. M4 - Men and Women for Others • "Today our prime educational objective must be to form men for others; men who will live not for themselves but for God; men who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for others is a farce." • -Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus

  18. M4 - Men and Women for Others • “Service” • The meaning of medicine is service. • Service is a way of life. • Capstone Project

  19. Creighton Medical Humanities • Questions?

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