Throughout the Dartmouth Health Care Foundations program, students connect with leading healthcare experts from around the world, including Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, MD, PhD, former Minister of Health of Rwanda.
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Bridging Humanities and Science
To develop a new model for training future leaders in healthcare, Dartmouth alumnus Eric Eichler ’57 partnered with The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice to create an interdisciplinary, liberal arts approach to pre-health and medical education. Through this work, we aim to support students as they pursue careers in clinical care, public health, advocacy, and scholarship.
The Dartmouth Healthcare Foundations Society for Medical Humanities
The Society represents the broader community of participants in our full suite of programs, including alumni, Dartmouth students, and students from our national and global networks. Each month, we host Foundations Conversations, open to Society members, to create additional learning and professional development opportunities for our expanding network of students and alumni.
Eric Eichler ’57 Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar Series
We invite you to join us for the monthly Eric Eichler ’57 Foundations in Medicine and Humanities Seminar Series, where experts from the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, and global leaders will guide you to think holistically and creatively about healthcare using a humanistic approach.
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The Eric Eichler '57 Fellowship for Healthcare Leaders
Outstanding undergraduate Dartmouth students will be selected for The Eric Eichler ’57 Fellowship for Healthcare Leaders. This one-year fellowship includes one-on-one mentorship with senior faculty and researchers at The Dartmouth Institute to guide your exploration of research, policy, or health outcomes improvement work through community service.
Humanistic Medicine: Cultivating Compassion in Healers, Patients, and Cultures of Care
This academic course is open to graduate students in the Dartmouth Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program and selected undergraduates.
Dartmouth Generations
Dartmouth Generations is a student-led organization for students who are interested in learning about dementia and other aging issues and getting to know older members of the Upper Valley Community.
The Summer Institute For Future Leaders in Health and Healthcare
Whether you are interested in working as a clinician, researcher, policy analyst, healthcare consultant, or advocate, Dartmouth Healthcare Foundations will provide you with a strong foundation to become a creative and compassionate leader in healthcare.
Healthcare is facing unprecedented challenges that require a different method of developing expertise. The current approach continues to promote a crisis of cynicism and demoralization that begins in the introductory stages of pre-health education. Through a new approach to pre-health education, we seek to disrupt this trajectory.
During the week-long summer intensive program on the campus of Dartmouth College, students will grapple with questions of advocacy, explore empathy and the culture of biomedicine, and reflect on how humanistic approaches provide an orientation toward compassionate engagement and serve as a guard against cynicism and fatigue in the complex work of health care. Sessions are led by top Dartmouth faculty, global health leaders, and clinicians to explore linkages between the humanities, social sciences, public health, and medicine. The program is open to all undergraduate students or recent graduates from any institution.
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