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Memorial Talk Combines Jazz and Medicine
The inaugural Michael J. Davidson lecture took place on March 8th. Michael Davidson was a 1996 graduate of Yale School of Medicine and this lecture was created by his classmates as a way to honor his memory.
Paul Haidet, MD, MPH spoke on Jazz and the Art of Medicine for the Michael Davidson Memorial Lecture.
Dr. Haidet is a general internist, health-services researcher, educator, and lover of jazz. At Penn State College of Medicine, he is the Director of Medical Education Research and Professor of Medicine, Humanities, and Public Health Sciences. He has published widely on a variety of topics related to teaching, communication, and the humanistic care of patients. His current interest is in the improvisational aspects of patient-physician communication, and he is using his lifelong interest in jazz to create new educational methods and models to foster advanced communication skills among physicians at multiple levels.
Source: Yale Daily News