Exploring the Humane Side of Healthcare: Medical Humanities and Ethics in Clinical Context

With the themes of enhancing provider-patient communication and honing skills of cultural competency, this conference employed a mix of methods—clinical case analysis, discussion, lecture, and participatory role-play/theater, as well as opportunities for reflective writing—to facilitate the development of skills in approaching cultural differences, difficult clinical encounters, end-of-life decision-making, and grief, as well as regulatory and technological constraints/opportunities.