Special One-Day Intensive Training
November 11, 2010 | The Mayflower® Renaissance Hotel | Washington, DC | $225
Register Now - Space is limited!
Join us in the heart of Washington, D.C.
for a special one-day Literature & Medicine training!
Learn how you can become involved in this innovative national reading and discussion group for health care professionals!
What is Literature & Medicine?
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care® is an innovative, award winning program for health care professionals that helps them increase their job satisfaction, cultural awareness, communication skills, empathy and inter-personal skills—all through the reading and discussion of literature with colleagues. It is offered to health care professionals across the country through partnerships with state humanities councils. Not only are CEUs and CMES often available, it is also a lot of fun. As one participant described it, ‘It brings joy back into my work.” ::: read more
The Training
This fall there will be an opportunity for those interested in starting the program, and for those new to it, to get the basic tools they will need to launch a successful Literature & Medicine program of their own. This intensive training will combine small group discussions, sessions on the nuts & bolts of organizing, an introduction to readings, and opportunities to interact with one another.
Anyone interested in organizing a program will find this training valuable and is welcome to attend (ideally, participants will have already communicated with their state humanities council). All participants will leave with the tools they need to organize a program.
The training is held in conjunction with After Shock: Humanities Perspectives on Trauma, November 12-13, 2010. Training participants who wish to attend the conference will receive a special rate.
We promise you will leave both informed and inspired!
The Literature & Medicine Training Institute offers participants:
- a thorough understanding of the program’s structure, goals, and outcomes;
- first-hand experience of the program through small group discussions of readings;
- guidance in selecting readings and crafting syllabi;
- clear instruction on the process for successful implementation of the program within hospitals and other health care facilities, including an understanding of the roles of the scholar, the liaison (what we call the hospital organizer), and the humanities council staff;
- an introduction to our new anthology of readings, on-line annotated bibliography and other resources;
- a valuable network of colleagues to draw upon for questions, best practices and reading recommendations.
In addition, each liaison and council staff member will receive a copy of our Literature & Medicine manual outlining the process of organizing the program in a health care facility. We hope to offer appropriate continuing education credits.
Who should attend? *
- Anyone involved in starting a program at a VA hospital
- Any health care professional or hospital employee interested in starting a program
- Humanities council staff, scholars, and hospital liaisons/organizers who are or will be involved in the L&M program but have not yet attended an Institute
*Ideally, states will be represented by teams that include hospital liaisons/organizers, facilitators, and state humanities council staff.
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