The Arnold P. Gold Foundation champions humanism in healthcare, which we define as compassionate, collaborative, and scientifically excellent care. This Gold standard of care embraces all and targets barriers to such care. We empower experts, learners, and leaders to together create systems and cultures that support humanistic care for all.

Share your plans for Solidarity Week!

Join the many GHHS chapters, medical and nursing schools, and patient care institutions across the world that will create activities to celebrate their commitment to humanistic care for all. Deadline to request free stickers: January 19th, 2024.

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Sign up and order your stickers for Thank a Resident Day

Join us February 23, 2024 for a special day where we collectively show appreciation for residents and how integral they are to the healthcare team. Deadline to request free stickers: January 19th, 2024.

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Donate to the Gold Foundation today

Did you miss Giving Tuesday? It’s not too late to show you care about humanism in healthcare. Your contribution – in any amount – matters so much and will make a real difference!

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Register now for the 2024 Gold Humanism Summit

Join us Feb. 29-March 2 in Atlanta, Georgia, for exciting keynotes, helpful workshops, engaging sessions, an art gallery, poster presentations, and much more.

Announcing the 2023-2024 GHHS Annual Initiative

We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 Gold Humanism Honor Society Annual Initiative: The Gold Compass: Using Humanism to Navigate Different Perspectives and Create Human-Centered Care. The goal of this initiative is to acknowledge that we live in a time with complex viewpoints and to seek to cultivate understanding and elevate the idea that within discourse lives humanity.

NEWS

Announcing the 2023-2025 Picker Gold GME Challenge Grants

November 13, 2023

Initiatives from The Ohio State University and University of Minnesota aim to prepare trainees to address microaggressions and to learn from community specialists in youth HIV care, respectively. The Arnold ... Read more

2023 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award is presented to Dr. Jaclyn D. Nunziato

October 26, 2023

Dr. Nunziato was announced as the 2023 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award recipient at the AAMC Awards Ceremony Oct. 25. This profile was originally posted on the ... Read more

Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – September-October 2023

October 19, 2023

The Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup features summaries of recently published studies on humanism in healthcare. To receive email notification of new studies once per month, enter your information here and select “Jeffrey Silver Research ... Read more

The Gold Foundation to bring its message of humanism to 2023 AAMC Annual Meeting in Seattle

September 29, 2023

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation will again be hosting multiple sessions at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)’s 2023 Annual Meeting, illuminating the message of humanism in Seattle at ... Read more

Letter from new Gold President & CEO Dr. Kathleen Reeves

July 25, 2023

Dear Gold community, I am honored and thrilled to be the third President and CEO of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation! I am looking forward to meeting you, hearing your ... Read more

Gold and Medallia build a new tool to measure humanistic care

May 18, 2023

How can you measure humanistic care? The Gold Foundation and Medallia, a market leader in patient experience and a Gold Corporate Council member, have been tackling this question together. Through ... Read more

Gold launches “Dismantling Structural Racism to Advance Health Equity,” a free online course in partnership with NextGenU

May 17, 2023

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a new NextGenU.org course, “Dismantling Structural Racism to Advance Health Equity,” developed by Gold Course Directors Ruth S. Shim, ... Read more

Landmark study finds GHHS selection is equitable for medical students from many marginalized groups

September 7, 2022

The first study to look closely at Gold Humanism Honor Society membership in medical schools across four categories – race/ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, and childhood family income – found selection ... Read more

Humanism in healthcare demands we address racism

June 3, 2020

As a leader of humanism in healthcare, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation condemns racism and call upon us all, in this fraught and historic moment, to help correct the long-standing inhumanity that harms people of color.

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8 Questions with… Dr. Jillian Horton

December 8, 2023

“8 Questions with…” is a Gold Foundation series spotlighting members of the Gold community – doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals of all kinds, students, corporate and hospital leaders, patients, family members, ... Read more

8 Questions with… Dr. Danielle Ofri

October 2, 2023

“8 Questions with…” is a Gold Foundation series spotlighting members of the Gold community – doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals of all kinds, students, corporate and hospital leaders, patients, family members, ... Read more

Episode 18: Gold Student Summer Fellowship: Understanding Barriers to Early Antenatal Care in Rural Georgia

April 6, 2023

The Gold Connection is produced by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Listen above or at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast, RadioPublic and ... Read more

Episode 17: Gold Student Summer Fellowship: Support for people experiencing incarceration and chronic illness in Los Angeles

March 24, 2023

The Gold Connection is produced by the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Listen above or at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Overcast, RadioPublic and ... Read more

Care in the cycle of gun violence

March 22, 2023

How can hospitals best care for victims of gun violence and help interrupt the cycle? A Medical Director of a Trauma Intervention Program in Philadelphia offers insight and advice. By ... Read more

8 Questions with… Dr. Pedro “Joe” Greer, Jr.

January 12, 2023

“8 Questions with…” is a new Gold Foundation series spotlighting members of the Gold community – doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals of all kinds, students, corporate and hospital leaders, patients, family ... Read more

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