Episode 10: Gold Student Summer Fellowship: Exploring Traditional Remedies in Ecuador

February 2, 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 many … Read more

Navigating the “me+we” of healthcare teams

January 17, 2023

This essay was originally published in the Mindful Practice Newsletter for January 2023. Dr. Ron Epstein is the Co-Founder of Mindful Practice. The Gold Foundation offers Flourishing at Work: Mindful Practice … Read more

Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – January 2022

January 27, 2022

Bharat Kumar, MD

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

Black woman with stethoscope reading

Apply now for 2021 Gold Student Summer Fellowships

January 27, 2021

The Gold Student Summer Fellowship program offers opportunities for medical students to complete a research or service project related to community health. The deadline for 2021 applications is March 26. Read more

Gold Human InSight Webinar | Clinical Improv: Cross-Training Your Communication Muscles

January 12, 2021

This Gold Human Insight Webinar, co-hosted with the Alda Center for Communicating Science, focuses on improvisational theater skills, which have a surprising and substantial overlap with skills required of clinicians. Watch

Q&A with professors of Humanism in Health & Healthcare course live cohort

August 7, 2020

Earlier this year, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation launched the free virtual course “Humanism in Health and Healthcare,” developed in partnership with Oakland University’s William Beaumont School of Medicine and … Read more

Gold Foundation announces new collaboration with The DAISY Foundation™

June 16, 2020

The two nonprofit organizations share a commitment to honoring nurses and the essential human connection at the core of nursing care. Read more

Sign up for Gold-Alda webinars: May 27 & June 3

April 29, 2020

Pia Pyne Miller, MPH, Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development, and Elizabeth Cleek, PsyD, Chief Operating Officer, will join Elizabeth Bojsza, Assistant Professor of Practice, and Susmita Pati, MD, … Read more

Bellevue Association honors Dr. Goldfrank, an icon of humanism

October 29, 2019

Nancy Young

The Bellevue Association honored Dr. Lewis Goldfrank on Oct. 2, 2019, for his pioneering impact on emergency medicine and great work as a humanist and physician. When Dr. Lewis Goldfrank … Read more

Preventing physician burnout by Health Design Thinking

March 21, 2019

by Kristy Shine, MD, PhD, Geoffrey Hayden MD, Ellen Lupton and Bon Ku, MD, MPP Physician burnout, now declared a public health crisis, demands action. A recent study found that “physicians … Read more

Gold Student Summer Fellow launches Patient Navigator Program at University of Miami student-run clinic

January 29, 2019

By Reina Pattner At the University of Miami’s student-run clinic, a new Patient Navigator Program delivers humanistic medical care to people who inject drugs by linking them to community resources … Read more

Gabriella Amaya (left), Atoofa Baig (not pictured), and Heidi Iskander (not pictured) are senior BSN students at University of Miami who serve as patient navigators for the Patient Navigation Program - the result of a Gold Student Summer Fellowship awarded to Hardik Patel (right), director of the Patient Navigation Program and a second-year MD/MPH student. (Credit: IDEA Wound Care Clinic)

Gold sparkles at the 2018 Planetree conference

October 31, 2018

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation joined with Planetree at its 40th Anniversary International Conference on Person-Centered Care, a dynamic gathering of advocates of compassionate care. Held October 7-10, 2018, the … Read more

Announcing two 2019 Gold Humanism Scholars at the Harvard Macy Institute and a new faculty mentor

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is delighted to announce the 2019 Gold Humanism Scholars at the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators: Dimitrios Papanagnou, MD of Thomas Jefferson University, whose … Read more

2019 Gold Humanism Scholar at the Harvard Macy Institute: Reeni A. Abraham, MD of University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, left, and Dimitrios Papanagnou, MD of Thomas Jefferson University,

Three graduate medical education programs awarded DeWitt (Bud) C. Baldwin, Jr. Award

April 18, 2016

Studies have shown that rates of depression and burnout among medical residents increase sharply during training. Many residency programs do not encourage their residents to talk about difficult situations or to … Read more

Compassion in Practice Continuing Education Course

April 17, 2016

Compassion in Practice: Achieving Better Outcomes by Maximizing Communication, Relationships and Resilience Oct. 28-29, 2016 | Boston Marriott Long Wharf Join us for the inaugural session of Compassion in Practice: … Read more

Gold Foundation Partners With Empathetics, Inc.

February 16, 2016

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation has partnered with Empathetics, Inc. to help bring empathy education to medical and nursing students. Empathetics—founded by Gold-funded researcher Dr. Helen Riess—is a leading empathy … Read more

Gold Foundation Launches Triple C Initiative to Promote Compassionate, Collaborative Care

February 1, 2016

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation has launched a new initiative Compassionate, Collaborative Care (the Triple C) to promote the intersection of compassion and collaboration to achieve the goal of person-centered care and … Read more

Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup — January 2016

January 29, 2016

Burnout, Interprofessional Education & Teamwork, Medical Education, Patient-Practitioner Relationships, Professionalism, Research on Humanism in Medicine, Technology and Humanism. All these things and more in this month’s Research Roundup! Read more

Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup — November 2015

November 30, 2015

This post is part of our series of Research Roundups — a list of recently published studies on humanism in healthcare. If you would like to be notified each time a Research … Read more

APGF to support and present at Empathy & Innovation Summit

April 2, 2015

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation (APGF) is a supporting partner for the sixth annual Patient Experience: Empathy + Innovation Summit, a four-day, inter-professional conference held in Cleveland, Ohio from May … Read more

Advancing Compassionate, Person- and Family-Centered Care through Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Practice

March 17, 2015

More than 80 caregivers, educators, policy leaders, healthcare administrators and patient and family advocates gathered in Atlanta in the fall of 2014 to identify strategies for … Read more

Humanism in Medicine Research Roundup — March 2015

This post is part of our series of Research Roundups — a list of recently published studies on humanism in medicine. If you would like to be notified each time a Research … Read more

Humanism in Medicine Research Roundup – December 2014

December 30, 2014

This post is part of our series of Research Roundups — a list of recently published studies on humanism in medicine. If you would like to be notified each time a Research … Read more

Leaky Pipes by Melissa McCoy

This post is part of our collection of “Gold Nuggets” — our way of alerting the medical community to original artwork, poetry or multimedia that stimulate discussion and reflection. If … Read more

Compassionate Collaborative Care Conference Creates New Vision

December 11, 2014

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation and The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, along with their academic partner, the University of Chicago’s Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, and with support from the Josiah Macy … Read more

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