Icahn medical students create PEERS program to foster resilience and community

September 1, 2020

Co-founders of PEERS, a well-being program for medical trainees at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, share tips for institutions interested in starting their own student-led support program. Read more

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

2020 Summer Reading for Compassionate Clinicians

July 31, 2020

Each summer, we compile a list of intriguing books published since last year’s list that might help strengthen clinicians’ commitment to compassionate care of both patients and themselves. This list … Read more

Led by medical students, Faces of the Frontline project shares stories of clinicians caring in the COVID-19 crisis

July 30, 2020

Faces of Frontlines is digital campaign that began at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic “to amplify the voices of those keeping us safe.” Learn more in this Q&A with two of the campaign’s student leaders. Read more

Q&A with Dr. Dorothy Levine, departing GHHS leader

May 14, 2020

As Vice President, GHHS, Dr. Levine seeded national initiatives that turned GHHS chapters into a global force of student-run community projects and advocacy Read more

Our need to be changed

May 12, 2020

The COVID-19 virus is a simple little bundle of proteins, dumbly doing what it does and without choice. Really not much of an enemy; the much more formidable foe is the dissonance that comes from holding a world view that doesn’t jive with reality.
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#ColoringCare pages by GHHS member Dr. Mike Natter

May 5, 2020

Coloring and creative expression can be cathartic, and the ongoing COVID crisis calls for both a celebration of our healthcare professionals and calming activities that help us all get through … Read more

Q&A with artist, NYU resident & GHHS member Dr. Mike Natter

Dr. Mike Natter is a Gold Humanism Honor Society member and resident physician at NYU Langone, a New York City hospital and Gold Partners Council member hospital that has been on the front lines of the heaviest hit U.S. city in the COVID-19 pandemic. A lifelong artist, Dr. Natter has recently begun sharing illustrations of his colleagues on Instagram, their faces obscured by face shields and masks, yet still priming with powerful humanity. Read more

Peer-led compassion coaching helps strengthen medical student wellness

April 27, 2020

With support from its GHHS chapter, two students at Wake Forest School of Medicine developed the Compassion Coaches program, a peer-led program for third-year students that allows them to safely debrief emotionally intense experiences and build community through vulnerability and reflection. Read more

The irony of connection in a world of distance

April 3, 2020

Emergency medicine physician Lauren J. Prusnofsky Field reflects on connection in the age of physical distancing: ” For safety, I am temporarily at a longer stretch away from my patients than I would like, but I would like them to know this does not mean we worry less, consider their pain less, or take them less seriously. Each day is a chance to work towards establishing alternate means of providing comfort and gaining trust without being able to safely hold someone’s hand.” Read more

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