Daily Dose of Humanities is a project that aims to incorporate humanities into medical education. Incorporating humanities into medical education can promote physical examination skills, humanistic attributes and professional conduct.
Daily dose of humanities as a web based platform was inspired by the work of Darryl Potyk, MD and colleagues at the University of Washington in Spokane, who did something similar during inpatient rounding.
Kwabena Adubofour, MD is the medical director of East Main Clinic and Stockton Diabetes Intervention Center, Stockton, California. He started daily dose of humanities as a requirement for medical students and residents rotating through his ambulatory internal medicine practice.
In clinic, everyday someone would share something unrelated to medicine that they found inspiring, funny, insightful or interesting. This little dose of humanities could be a news article, a poem, a meme, a funny video – anything really! Through this momentary break from the hustle and bustle of medicine, we as healthcare providers could connect back to the greater world around us.
Emily Tze and Navneet Deol are awesome resident physicians in Internal Medicine and Family Medicine (respectively) and Co-editors and designers of this site. This website would not be possible without the warmth and thoughtfulness and randomness of their kindness and technical expertise.
Editorial Board Members
Kwabena Adubofour, MD
Tami Hendriksz, DO
Anil Harrison, MD
Emily Tze, DO
Navneet Deol, DO
Contributors
Ikramah Latif, DO
Sukhpreet Janda, DO
Inspiration
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
“The object of the physician is to find health, anyone can find disease.”
A.T. Still MD, DO – Founder of Osteopathic Medicine
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
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