Please note there is no Certificate of Series Attendance for this workshop. There will be a Certificate of Workshop Attendance.

The role of medical education is to develop knowledge, skills and professional formation in both its learners and faculty. Human flourishing guided medical education provides a guiding framework and overall objective aimed at developing learner and faculty excellence in knowledge, skills and the essential aspects of formation. This session will overview key concepts of human flourishing guided education, forward key human flourishing frameworks followed by current examples of flourishing guided curricular initiatives to demonstrate how they have operationalized “Human Flourishing” with curricular interventions or strategic experiences. Participants will then be guided through a series of worksheets to develop flourishing guided curricular initiatives relevant to their area of expertise. The goals will be to develop curricular approaches that will promote medical student and faculty thriving by addressing domains such as happiness/life satisfaction, physical/mental health, character/virtue meaning/purpose, and close social relationships. This session will also explore the inter-relationship of caring, decision making, family support, work/learning environments, and community connections in supporting flourishing.

The session will also focus on the roles of faculty as well as potential barriers impeding the ability to flourish as students, residents, physicians, researchers, and educators.
The session will also invite the attendees to consider their own state of flourishing using the Human Flourishing Index (a validated instrument), in addition to gaining new insights and tools to improve their learning environment to promote flourishing and a renewed sense of purpose, meaning and connection.