Professionalism, Empathy, and Kindness

Professionalism, empathy and kindness are key characteristics to being successful in medicine.

Project PEAK serves as a repository for described acts of professionalism, empathy, and kindness. Real life incidents are recorded in a safe and anonymous environment where others can read them and be inspired to be better and more compassionate medical professionals to our patients.

Real Stories

UMKC School of Medicine has collected real-life anecdotes and stories from people in the healthcare workforce in the US (shown below).

Please use the anonymous-optional form at the bottom of this page to share your stories and experiences.

We will select unique narratives to post and create them as videos on this page.

Please join Project PEAK!

Please share your experiences and stories below. You can share them anonymously. Many others can learn from your experiences.

July 25, 2022 at 9:23PM

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August 3, 2022 at 2:37PM

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August 8, 2022 at 3:42AM

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Introduction

Respect is a positive feeling or action towards someone or something, due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others.

How do we show respect for others? We listen, we are polite, we are kind. The profession of medicine involves a desire to serve others. Serving shows that we care and is an important element is showing respect.

Microaggression is a term used for brief and commonplace daily verbal or behavioural indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative attitudes toward stigmatized or culturally marginalized groups.

Microaggressions demonstrate a lack of respect.

PEP is designed to be a compendium of incidents of microaggression. Real life described microaggressions are detailed in a safe and anonymous way in hopes of bringing a greater understanding of how disrespectful, hurtful and demeaning this can be to the receiver or target.

Real Stories

Please use the anonymous-optional form at the bottom of this page to share your stories and experiences.

We will select unique narratives to post and create them as videos on this page.

Please join Project Respect!

Please share your experiences and stories below. You can share them anonymously. Many others can learn from your experiences.

July 25, 2022 at 9:23PM

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August 3, 2022 at 2:37PM

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August 8, 2022 at 3:42AM

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“Writing for Success in Science and Medicine”

Martha Montello, Ph.D. – Speaker
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
11:30am – 1:00 p.m.
School of Medicine
Theater C

Objectives:

• Identify 10 essential steps for successful writing in science and medicine
• Examine editors’ reasons for why manuscripts are rejected
• Distinguish between a study and a story

Target Audience:

• Faculty who want to enhance their publication success
• Departments and programs that wish to further their publication presence and coach faculty for scholarly achievement

Martha Montello, Ph.D. is a Lecturer for the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  She teaches narrative ethics and literature and medicine for medical students, fellows, and physicians at Harvard and also teaches resident in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Residency Program in Primary Care and Population Health.  Professor Montello is Editor-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins University Press Journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.  In Kansas City, she is founding director of the Medical Writing Center at Children’s Mercy Hospital.  Her scholarship has been published widely in journals such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Hastings Center Report, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Ethics, Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, New Orleans Review, and the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.