The hidden curriculum, or the socialization process of medical training, plays a crucial role in the development of physicians, as they navigate the clinical learning environment. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine medical faculty and students' perceptions of psychological, moral, and spiritual challenges during medical training in caring for critically ill patients. Focus groups were conducted with 25 Harvard Medical School (HMS) students, and interviews were conducted with 8 HMS faculty members. Five major themes emerged as important in shaping students' medical...

Clergy are often important sources of guidance for patients and family members making medical decisions at the end-of-life (EOL). Previous research revealed spiritual support by religious communities led to more aggressive care at the EOL, particularly among minority patients. Understanding this phenomenon is important to help address disparities in EOL care.

OBJECTIVE: The study objective was to explore and describe clergy perspectives regarding "good" versus "poor" death within the participant's spiritual tradition.

METHODS: This was a qualitative,...

On Wed morning Dec 23, HMDC staff were forced to restart our HTCondor resource manager.  The resource manager controls all of the jobs submitted to the RCE cluster.  Restarting the resource manager terminates all running jobs.  We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, but was necessary since no new jobs could be submitted.  

We are excited to announce that a Choral Fellows recording of "Christmas Eve: A Trio with Solos," by the 10 year old Samuel Barber (reconstructed by Iain Quinn) will be featured on Christmas Eve on Performance Today!, a popular classical music radio program. You can listen on the Performance Today! website. The performance is in Hour One of the program.