GHHS Utah Chapter

The Gold Humanism Honors Society is hosting a “Humanism in Medical Communication” series. Faculty who have demonstrated great communication skills have been invited to lead a discussion focused on communication in medicine. Some of these topics include speaking about clinical uncertainty, conflict resolution, running a family meeting, etc. We would love for you to join us for our session about “Partnering with Patients and Families Seeking Alternative Treatments”, led by Dr. Francis Filloux, a pediatric neurologist. The session will be over Zoom on December 5th from 12:00pm-1:00pm. Please use the Sign-Up Genius so we have a rough estimate of how many people are planning to show up.
Zoom Link can be found in the Sign-Up Genius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4CACAC2FABFDCE9-50878819-humanism #/

Congratulations to our GHHS cohort & all their colleagues on graduating medical school this weekend. We cannot wait to cheer on all that you do to better the world around you! ⭐️

Congratulations to our newly inducted GHHS cohort of 2024-2025! We are so excited to see all that you do in the upcoming year. Also, a warm congratulations to our graduating cohort. We can’t wait to see all that you do in the world. A special thank you to Dr. Laura Lambert for being an incredible keynote speaker and inspiration for our students. Lastly, we want to thank Dr. Pippitt, Dr. Glasgow & Brittany for being the glue and backbone of our group and bringing all our ideas to life! We are so grateful to your leadership! Here’s to another great year of showcasing humanism in medicine! ❤️

Feb 14-18th is National Gold Humanism Honor Society ! Est in 2011, this week highlights the importance of physician-patient relationships based on caring, personalization, and mutual respect. Help us spread joy, gratitude, and humanism in medicine by stopping by our Hearts of Gold table in the hospital atrium today from 1-2 pm to write thank yous, and by thanking a resident on Pulse (pulse.utah.edu/recognitions)!!! We will also be highlighting submissions here, so be sure to follow along!

Learn more:
https://www.gold-foundation.org/programs/ghhs/ghhs-solidarity-week/

Tell Me More is a program that was first implemented in 2014. The goal of Tell Me More is simple: to allow patients, caregivers, and hospital staff to connect with each other on a more human level. It was originally designed by medical students to strengthen the bond that exists between patients and the individuals who care for them. Tell Me More allows patients and caregivers to get to know each other beyond their diagnoses and job descriptions.

Please watch the video (below) and join us. You can find the Tell Me More sheets in most of the medicine team rooms in the University Hospital, Primary Children’s Hospital, and the VA! Fill them out, learn about folks beyond their diagnoses, and share them with us!

https://www.gold-foundation.org/programs/tell-me-more/

Please participate in one of our favorite traditions: Thank A Resident! We’re so lucky to have compassionate residents to learn from and work alongside. To participate, just go to Pulse (link below), scroll down and click “recognize someone.” You can recognize residents for their kindness, hard work, or anything else you’d like. It’s a great way to encourage and thank our amazing residents!

https://pulse.utah.edu/SitePages/Pulse.aspx

Hello! Happy President’s Day and Happy Solidarity Week!

“The national Gold Humanism Honor Society office established National Solidarity Day for Compassionate Care in 2011 to highlight the nation-wide movement promoting  provider-patient relationships based on caring, personalization, and mutual respect.  Momentum gathered particularly after the Senate passed a resolution in 2013 and 2014 to officially recognize Solidarity Day on the national calendar, and it is now typically celebrated on or around Valentine’s Day.  In 2016, many chapters celebrated a week of events instead of just one day.”

https://www.gold-foundation.org/programs/ghhs/ghhs-solidarity-week/

We are so grateful for our amazing patients, preceptors, residents, fellows, support staff, and so many others. Have a great solidarity week!

Hey everyone! Here is a great opportunity to show some gratitude and make someone’s week! Write a thank you to recognize someone who spreads compassion and joy - these can be from patients, students, residents, etc. to anyone else in the hospital! These will be displayed and distributed to the recipients at the end of the week. There will be folders with instructions delivered to team rooms in the hospitals. Stop by Student Affairs to fill a heart out if you are not on clinical rotations! Please enjoy some candy on us after you fill out your heart. 

In a 2019 article within The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery titled, "What's Important: Learning Names," Dr. J. Lawrence Marsh speaks of his life-changing experience golfing with Arnold Palmer.

Dr. Marsh explains how Arnold Palmer, the King of golf, took the time to memorize the names of Dr. Marsh's foursome of "nobodies" while they golfed at a large charity event for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. To this day, Dr. Marsh cherishes that simple gesture by "The King."

Humanism is about adding a human connection. In this instance, Arnold Palmer made an impersonal event very personal. That personal touch created fond memories for the now-chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Marsh states, "I try to remember [Arnold Palmer's actions that day] in the moments that make up any given day—in an elevator with a nurse, when seeing the medical assistant in my clinic, when the cleaning person comes in to empty the trash, when a junior resident does not know the answer, when passing someone in the hall, and when a family is lost in our big hospital."

Learning names, but more importantly connecting with humans, is what it's all about—especially in healthcare. Check out the article (citation below) for some inspiration and a great story!

Marsh JL. What's Important: Learning Names. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2019 Dec 4;101(23):2152-2153. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.19.00490. PMID: 31800429.

Drs. Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli took a deep dive into the literature to answer this question. In brief, they found a LOT of measurable benefits of compassion. They created a field and wrote a book about their findings and how to improve compassion in medical education: “Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference.”

40 seconds of compassion can improve healthcare outcomes for the patient AND act as an antidote to physician burnout. Sounds like a win-win to the social media team at GHHS_Utah.

If you have 15 min to hear about their findings: here is a link to Dr. Trzeciak’s TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/elW69hyPUuI

55 min version: The Freakonomics Podcast has a recent episode titled, “How do you cure a compassion crisis?” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-do-you-cure-a-compassion-crisis/id354668519?i=1000502657418

More than an hour? Check out the book.

Still looking for more? Reach out to a friend or a loved one! They will be delighted to hear from you!

So proud of our medical staff who are working hard to provide care for all who need it. Wearing white ribbons to support our colleagues! ❤️ @ University of Utah Health