University of Central Florida inducts GHHS members
November 10, 2016
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US Surgeon General speaks at Golden Thread Gala
November 7, 2016

US Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy delivers a powerful speech at the 2016 Golden Thread Gala. Murthy was presented with the Humanism in Medicine Award at the event. chevron_right Watch

Sandra and Arnold P. Gold talk about the Gold Foundation
November 4, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9LO6wNH8Wg&feature=youtu.be Listen to Sandra and Arnold Gold talk about the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in a video we created for our 2016 Golden Thread Gala. chevron_right Watch

Seton Hall celebrates White Coat Ceremony
White Coat Ceremony is the first milestonechevron_rightRead more
Gold supported research in the news
Healthcare Times
Researchers identify effective interventions for burnoutchevron_rightRead more
At the intersection of race and medicine
November 1, 2016

by Ali Rae, MS4 A friend of mine once told me about a time he was acutely aware of his race during one of his third-year clerkships in medical school. … chevron_right Read more

Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – October 2016
October 31, 2016
Brandy King, MLIS

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 … chevron_right Read more

US Surgeon General to be honored at Golden Thread Gala
October 18, 2016

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation will host its annual Golden Thread Gala on November 1st at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York. This year, the event will honor … chevron_right Read more

Which interventions reduce physician burnout?
October 2, 2016
Ali Rae

Fifteen years ago, Dr. Colin West was introduced to Dr. Tait Shanafelt, who is now the Director of the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Program on Physician Well-being.  With the … chevron_right Read more

Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – September 2016

Interventions to prevent and reduce physician burnout, effects of a patient-centered communication, narrative medicine workshops, community health needs assessment as a teaching tool in a family medicine residency, burnout and alcohol abuse/dependence and more! chevron_right Read more

Dr. Richard Levin joins Medscape panel to discuss physician burnout
September 19, 2016

Watch Gold Foundation CEO Dr. Richard Levin discuss physician burnout on a panel organized by Medscape in July, 2016. chevron_right Watch

2015 Gold-Hope Tang Essay Contest Winner

Dr. Joanna Sharpless reads her winning essay entitled “Being the Narrator.” chevron_right Watch

2015 Winning Essay
September 16, 2016

Dr. Joanna Sharpless reads her winning essay at the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Golden Thread Gala. chevron_right Watch

CDC Director Tom Frieden at our Golden Thread Gala

Dr. Tom Freiden, Director of the CDC, received the Humanism in Medicine Award at our 2015 Golden Thread Gala in New York City. Here’s his powerful speech that connected public health to the … chevron_right Watch

What is Humanism?
September 15, 2016

At our Research Institute’s Mapping the Landscape Symposium, researchers were asked to define humanism in a word or sentence. Here’s what some said. chevron_right Watch

Tow Award winner bridges gap from hospital to home
Brandy King, MLIS

As a physician at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Dr. Honora Englander had a dramatic realization with a patient whom she saw after transferring from the ICU to the … chevron_right Read more

The importance of keeping up with ethics
September 6, 2016

by Ali Rae, MS4 She was born with HIV. Seventeen years later, she sat with her small feet dangling from the hospital bed, swinging like twin pendulums out of sync. … chevron_right Read more

The Context-Dependence of Empathy

by David Scales MD, PhD If you follow Twitter, KevinMD or the medical literature on clinical empathy you start to get the impression that empathy – and a physician’s lack of … chevron_right Read more

Review of “Blood Lines” by Paul McLean
August 12, 2016
Molly Olmsted

When Paul and Jody McLean went to pick up their new beagle, her name was nothing more than a four-digit number tattooed on her inner ear. Hutch, as she later … chevron_right Read more

Review of “Bedside Manners”, by David Watts

Review by Perry Dinardo “I write the story and the story writes me.” In Bedside Manners: One Doctor’s Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters between Patient and Healer, David Watts, MD … chevron_right Read more

Stories of Medical School from GHHS Members

In 2013, the Gold Foundation provided a grant to help with the creation of a series of podcasts called Inside Stories, an oral narratives project which invites medical students to share their … chevron_right Read more

Review of “In the Hands of Doctors” by Paul E. Stepansky
August 9, 2016
Ali Rae

Where does the artistry of medicine really lie, and how can we cultivate it in today’s doctors? These seem to be the central questions of Paul E. Stepansky’s book, In the Hands … chevron_right Read more

“Just Ask Your Doctor”: Therapeutic Narratives and the Path to Healing
August 2, 2016

by Karen Knops, MD “Bones” was one of my favorite patients.  Close to seventy years old, he’d had a wild youth riding motorcycles.  His nickname was minted after one of his … chevron_right Read more

Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – July 2016
July 29, 2016

This month’s Research Roundup includes the latest articles from residents’ moral courage and medical students’ emotional intelligence to EMR use and clinician professionalism, compassion, and communication training. chevron_right Read more

Polarity Thinking in medical education
July 28, 2016

by John (Jack) Penner, MS3 and Margaret Cary, MD, MBA, MPH Medicine thrives on Either/Or problem solving. We make a diagnosis. Or we don’t. We prescribe a medication. Or we don’t. … chevron_right Read more

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