The Arnold P. Gold Foundation infuses the human connection into healthcare. We engage schools, health systems, companies, and individual clinicians in the joy and meaning of humanistic healthcare, so that they have the strength and knowledge to ensure patients and families are partners in collaborative, compassionate, and scientifically excellent care.

Gold Foundation’s response to COVID-19

The extended Gold Foundation family is grateful beyond words to the physicians, nurses, and many other clinicians and healthcare workers, from custodial staff to CEOs, who are caring for people in this crisis. Our work is continuing, and we are here to support you.

Learn more about Mindful Practice from the experts

The Gold Foundation hosted a free webinar with Dr. Mick Krasner, co-founder of Mindful Practice, on March 4. Watch the recording for an introduction to the background, research, and tips and techniques to help in this challenging time.

2020 National Humanism in Medicine Medal recipients

The Gold Foundation is proud to announce the 2020 recipients of our National Humanism in Medicine Medal: Dr. Danielle Ofri, Mrs. Deb O’Hara-Rusckowski, Mr. Steve Rusckowski, and Dr. Eric Topol.

NEWS

Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare – Special Edition: Maintaining the Human Connection in the Age of COVID-19

March 24, 2020

This special edition highlights studies from previous Research Roundup editions that are particularly relevant in the age of COVID-19. As healthcare systems adapt to address the challenges posed by the pandemic, we focus on how we can maintain and strengthen humanism in healthcare during these trying times.

2020 ACGME-Gold Bud Baldwin Award presented to 3 institutions for exceptionally humanistic residency programs

March 2, 2020

The 2020 AGME-Gold DeWitt (Bud) C. Baldwin Jr. Award will be presented to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital; and Utah Healthcare Institute – St. Mark’s Family Medicine.

POSTPONED: Gold Foundation partners with #YeahYouWrite series to spotlight the Bellevue Literary Review

February 25, 2020

This event at Bo's Kitchen & Bar Room in NYC has been postponed. Look for a new date to celebrate Bellevue Literary Review and these four remarkable writers, including Editor-in-Chief Danielle Ofri.

2019-21 Picker Gold GME Challenge Grants to enhance bioethics, social determinants curricula

February 6, 2020

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019-2021 Picker Gold Graduate Medical Education Challenge Grants, two exceptional projects designed to improve compassionate, patient-centered care and ... Read more

Leading Canadian medical educator & writer Dr. Jillian Horton to be presented with the 2020 AFMC-Gold Humanism Award

January 28, 2020

Gold Foundation Canada and The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada to honor her commitment to compassion in medical education The Gold Foundation for Humanistic Healthcare, Canada, and The ... Read more

BLOG

“D” is for Document

March 11, 2020

by Karen Knops, MD Proverb: The faintest ink is better than the strongest memory. As ancestral cave paintings indicate, humans have always had the instinct to create a physical record ... Read more

Q&A with Dr. Ron Epstein and Dr. Mick Krasner of Mindful Practice

August 12, 2019

Ronald Epstein, MD, FAAHPM, is Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Oncology, and Medicine (Palliative Care) at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Mick Krasner, MD, FACP, is ... Read more

At 2019 Bud Baldwin winner Middlesex Health, resident physicians are part of a small-town community

June 25, 2019

Each year, the Gold Foundation and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recognizes institutions that foster a respectful, humanistic environment for resident physicians by awarding the ACGME and ... Read more

Middlesex Health

A choiceless choice: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha on standing up and speaking out

May 28, 2019

This story was first published on The Vilcek Foundation website. For Flint whistleblower Mona Hanna-Attisha, speaking up for the city’s children was “a choiceless choice,” she says. When the pediatrician ... Read more

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