#307 Teaching whole person care 🗓
With Prof Paul Rylance
Treating a patient should not be just about the condition, but also their psychosocial and spiritual needs – Body, Mind and Spirit. All over the world healthcare systems are increasingly pressured. Attitudes of many doctors and other healthcare workers are changing, with concerns about work-life balance and burnout.
In this context multi-professional team members might be less willing to “go the extra mile” in offering compassionate care, in the way Jesus demonstrated. There are many studies that show compassion benefits not just patients but also healthcare workers.
Professor Rylance will be sharing thoughts about the nature of Whole Person Care, evidence for the benefits, and how it can be taught.
- Presentation slides(opens in new tab)
- Podcast version(opens in new tab)
- All questions from the Q&A session(opens in new tab)
Further resources:
- PRIME(opens in new tab)
- PRIME Newsletters(opens in new tab)
- Whole Person Care Training Track
- Developing PRIME teaching in changing healthcare and education systems(opens in new tab)
- Wholecare - Nurturing the spiritual heart of healthcare (opens in new tab)
- Email Dr Shari Falkenheimer for a copy of her dissertation on Restoring Wholeness to Healthcare(opens in new tab)
Prof Paul Rylance
Professor Rylance has been a Consultant in General and Renal Medicine in Wolverhampton, UK. Throughout his career he has led medical education, as Postgraduate Clinical Tutor and then Head of the Undergraduate Academy and is Honorary Professor in the University of Birmingham.
He is part of the Management Team of PRIME International (Partnerships in International Medical Education), a Christan Medical Education charity, whose teaching includes Whole Person Care.
His overseas experience started with a medical student elective in Liberia and more recently has taught with PRIME in the Seychelles, Uganda and Burundi, and now increasingly developing international online programmes.