Inculcating Jesuit Values via
Medical Humanities
Thomas J. Hansen, MD
Jesuit Medical School Conference
2011
Creighton Medical Humanities
• To be more explicit
about our Jesuit
tradition at
Creighton University
School of Medicine
as it applies to
medicine.
• How to do this to
Gen Y?
Creighton Medical Humanities
• Generation Y
– Opportunity for Gen
Y to help create a
course for their
generation
– Opportunity for Gen
Y to integrate
Ignatian Values into
Medical Education
Generation Y
• 7 Defining
Characteristics
• Special
• Sheltered
• Confident
• Conventional
• Team-oriented
• Achieving
• Pressured
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Deloitte Development LCC 2005
Generation Y
• Beliefs
– Education is good
– Integrity is admirable
– Parents/teachers are
role models
• Deloitte Development LCC
2005
Generation Y
• At school
– Inductive discovery- learn
better through discovery
than being told
– Technology is expected
– However, the activity is
more important than the
technology behind it
– Prefer a group activity to
Power Point or a formal
lecture.
• Deloitte Development LCC 2005
Generation Y
• At work
– Work well with friends and
on teams
– Partner well with mentors
– Resourceful, innovative
– Impatient; comfortable with
speed and change
– Expect respect
– Value guidance
– Thrive on flexibility
• Deloitte Development LCC 2005
Generation Y
• Sixty Minutes Link
• “Transform
workplace into a
nicer place to be.”
• “Transform medical
environment into
one embodying
Ignatian Values”
CUSOM Medical Humanities
• Ignatian Values
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Contemplatives in Action
Cura Personalis
Magis
Men and Women for
Others
• Method:
– Speakers
– On-line group
activities
– On-line Reflections
– Multi-Media
How does Ignatian Values
Apply to Medicine?
• Ignatian Values in
Continuing Medical
Education
• School of Medicine
– Undergraduate
Medical Education
– Graduate Medical
Education
– Continuing Medical
Education
M1 - Contemplatives in Action
• Term comes from GC 32
• “If we wish to continue to be faithful to this
special character of our vocation…we must
“contemplate” our world as Ignatius did his, that
we may hear anew the anguish and aspirations
of men and women.”
• Reflection, Vocation, Mission
M1 - Contemplatives in Action
• Who are the Jesuits and the
Sisters of Mercy?
• History of St. Joseph
Hospitals
• Mission of CU, SOM, St.
Joseph Hospitals
• What is your mission?
– Photostory, Facebook
• Introduction to Jesuit
Spirituality
• Praying with the senses
• Service learning
• On-line reflections and small
groups
M2 - Cura Personalis
• Latin for “Care of the Entire Individual”
• Originally used to describe the
responsibility of the Jesuit Superior to
care for each man in the community
with his unique gifts, challenges, needs
and possibilities.
M2 - Cura Personalis
• Mind
• Body
• Spirit
• On-line reflection
– Caring for patients in
mind/body/spirit
– Not just treating a
disease
M3 - Magis
• Ad Majorem Dei Gloria (AMDG)
• Latin “For the Greater Glory of God”
• Motto of the Society of Jesus
• Believed to be coined by St. Ignatius.
• Reflects the idea that any work that is not evil
can be meritorious for the spiritual life if it is
performed with this intention, even things
considered normally indifferent.
M3 - Magis
• Sufi Parable
• On-line reflection based
on the competencies
and their rotations.
M4 - Men and Women for
Others
• "Today our prime educational objective must be to form men for
others; men who will live not for themselves but for God; men
who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not
include love for the least of their neighbors; men completely
convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for
others is a farce."
• -Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., twenty-eighth Superior General of the
Society of Jesus
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M4 - Men and Women for
Others
“Service”
• The meaning of
medicine is service.
• Service is a way of
life.
• Capstone Project
Creighton Medical Humanities
• Questions?