Peering through the ontological windows of shame: What this emotion reveals about being and becoming in medicine
Will Bynum, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Duke University School of Medicine
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Hybrid: Life Sciences Centre 1312 CMR & Zoom*
Zoom Details: For connection details, please email ches.communications@ubc.ca.
Abstract
Shame is a normal, albeit challenging and potentially destructive, self-conscious emotion that can be a potent emotional experience for medical trainees. In this talk, the speaker will utilize his team’s research on shame in medical learners plus literature from psychology and graphic medicine art to pose a central concept: that experiences of shame offer an ontological window into what it means to be a medical learner and to become a physician. Shame experiences highlight the nature of this being and becoming as highly dynamic, often unstable and distressing, and—in the presence of supportive educational structures—potentially profoundly growth catalyzing.
Biography
Will Bynum, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and a Veteran of the United States Air Force. He received his Ph.D. in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 2023, where defended his thesis entitled “Out of the shadows: a qualitative exploration of shame in medical learners.” He is the co-creator of The Shame Space, a global consortium that advances open communication about the role of shame in healthcare, a co-producer on the award winning “Shame in Medicine” podcast series produced by The Nocturnists, and a co-founder of The Shame Lab, which catalyzes research and training to advance shame competence in healthcare and beyond.
The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians. This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 15 Mainpro+® credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity. CFPC Session ID: 200716-001.
RCPSC ACCREDITATION: The CHES Cutting Edge Speaker Series is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.