In-person workshop
April 8, 2022
Implications for UME from Voices Across Academic Medicine
Listener Poet Yvette Perry.
“It can be challenging for these professionals to truly listen to medical students in order to serve them.”
The high-stress environments in which medical students learn do not always cultivate well-being.
The faculty, staff members, and administrators who work in the Student Affairs area of medical schools are enthusiastic advocates for supporting environments of wellness for the students they serve. But with so many competing roles and pressures to prepare students for their next steps, it can be challenging for these professionals to truly listen to medical students in order to serve them.
To help these medical education professionals better meet the needs of future physicians in training, three team members from The Good Listening Project (TGLP) will be presenting at the upcoming Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Student Affairs/Careers in Medicine/Organization of Student Representatives national conference in April in Denver, Colorado.
“The poems produced from these sessions are a rich symphony of voices humanizing the healthcare experience.”
The session, “The Poetry of Good Listening: Implications for Undergraduate Medical Education from Voices Across Academic Medicine,” will feature the poems created as a result of the TGLP partnership with AAMC that was supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. As part of this project, TGLP held listening sessions with over 250 members of the academic medicine community (e.g., medical students, physicians, faculty, staff). The poems produced from these sessions are a rich symphony of voices humanizing the healthcare experience.
In this session, Frankie Abralind, Jenny Hegland, and Yvette Perry will provide insights into good listening by sharing poems—and stories of the conversations that inspired them—written by Listener Poets for people across the academic medicine community.
2022 Group on Student Affairs, Careers in Medicine, Organization of Student Representatives National Meeting
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