Category Archive for: "education"

Religion, Spirituality, and the Hidden Curriculum: Medical Student and Faculty Reflections

June 14, 2018 education

CONTEXT: Religion and spirituality play an important role in physicians’ medical practice, but little research has examined their influence within the socialization of medical trainees and [...]
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Educating chaplains for research literacy: results of a national survey of Clinical Pastoral Education residency programs

June 7, 2018 education

Research has been a theme in clinical pastoral education since the founding days of Anton Boisen, who used it “to inform his ministry and educate his students” [p. 10], but its place [...]
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Spiritual Care in Changing Times: Initial Glimpses from Theological Education

December 19, 2017 education, IDEAS IN BRIEF, News, Professionalization

Chaplains and spiritual caregivers sit with people in distress, support the grieving, care for the dead, and coordinate local religious leaders — all in the face of the kind of suffering that [...]
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Efficacy of training interprofessional spiritual care generalists

December 5, 2017 education

BACKGROUND: Provision of spiritual/religious (S/R) care has been associated with improvements in patient care, patient-provider relationships, and resource utilization. Clinicians identify a lack [...]
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Prevalence of depression amongst medical students: a meta-analysis

December 5, 2017 depression, education

CONTEXT: Medical schools are known to be stressful environments for students and hence medical students have been believed to experience greater incidences of depression than others. We evaluated [...]
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