ITEMS OF INTEREST October 22, 2007 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Joann Pan, Subodh Jain

STARTING THIS FALL SEMESTER, spirituality has officially been integrated into the four-year curriculum of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB [University of Buffalo].

According to Karen Devlin, the program manager, the Spirituality in Medicine Interdisciplinary Training Program will not add credit hours or change the current set of required courses in medical school. The integration of spirituality into the medical school curriculum is done by increasing the focus of culture and spirituality in certain classes. ...

Nancy Nguyen, a first-year medical student in CPM I [Clinical Practice of Medicine—Year 1], said there has been at least one lecture devoted to spiritual awareness this semester. In the lecture, they discussed ways that healthcare providers could recognize and work in accordance with a patient's spiritual ideas.

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