SXSW EDU 2025
Telling the Story: The Humanities in Medical Education
Description:
We stand on the belief that the Humanities play a crucial role in graduate medical education and practice, and must be part of the curriculum, starting even at the undergraduate level. Our panel’s expertise and accomplishments in this area constitute the local recent humanities developments, and by describing these we aim to spread the methodology needed to get to where we are today.
By drawing on the experience and training of members on this panel, particularly the use of structured storytelling and debriefing in Palliative Medicine to help patients, families, medical students, resident
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Takeaways
- Our audience will understand the current local influence of the Humanities on learners and educators in healthcare.
- Our audience will gain insight about the challenges the Humanities face in this landscape.
- Our audience will learn how they may boost the role of the Humanities in their own field, using our examples as potential solutions to the challenges.
Speakers
- Paul Harford, MD, Affiliate Faculty, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
- Phillip Barrish, Professor, The Univeristy Of Texas at Austin
- Darden Smith, Inaugural Artist In Residence, University of Texas
- Tyler Jorgensen, Associate Professor, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
Organizer
Paul Harford, MD, Affiliate Faculty, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
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