Educational Offerings
There is an educational component to all Gesundheit projects—the books, movies, lectures, clowning, global outreach, the model hospital project. In addition, Gesundheit hosts events focused on education—at the site of the future hospital and elsewhere—in the form of medical student electives, summer institutes, health care system design intensives, and conferences.
Compassion Curriculum
This is a project to develop a curriculum in compassion. Participation in the process is welcome! Read more ...
Medical Elective
The John M. Stang Medical Student Elective is a four-week elective in humanistic medicine: constructing your humanism. All interested stake-holders in health care are invited: pre-med students, medical students, nursing students, activists, scholars. Elective credit can be arranged. The next elective takes place on the Gesundheit! land in West Virginia in 2011. Read more and apply ... .
Health Care Justice Gathering
Co-sponsored by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and the Gesundheit! Institute, these gatherings takes place in January on the land in West Virginia and emphasize compassion and social justice in medicine, with presentations by such guests as Paul Glover and Lanny Smith MD, as well as Patch Adams MD, John Glick MD, and Susan Parenti DMA.Read more!
The School for Designing a Society: Summer Session
The School for Designing a Society, based in Illinois, is a sister organization to the Gesundheit! Institute that offers a condensed summer session of its "education in wanting, not just knowing" on the land in West Virgina. Upcoming course offerings with the School for Designing a Society
Health Care System Design Intensive
These working conferences are for those people who feel that the current medical system is undesirable, and who want time, tools, and new ideas to figure out "what next?" Anyone with a stake in health care is welcome to participate. The aim is to seed designs of a variety of local projects that move health care away from the corporate-business context into models of compassion and service. Along with speaker presentations, there are teaching sessions and small work groups. Read more
