Toward Flourishing in Medicine:

Reception Hosted by the Kern National Network

KNN National Director of Strategy and Partnerships Kimara Ellefson, MBA. (Photo by Jay Westhauser)

We are pleased to invite those attending the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Learn Serve Lead 2022 annual meeting to a reception for KNN colleagues, friends and all those interested in learning more about the movement to advance flourishing in medicine.

Join us for appetizers, refreshments and brief remarks celebrating the KNN’s transformational work so far and looking ahead to the next growth phase.

Sunday, November 13, 2022

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm CT

Room Griffin AB

JW Marriot Nashville

201 8th Avenue South

Nashville, TN 37203

The KNN Book Club is a space to read about and discuss concepts that inform the KNN Integrated Framework as well as their application within medicine’s learning and practice environments. Book selections rotate through works considered seminal by the KNN and titles suggested and voted on by book club members.

The KNN Book Club is made up of participants from across the KNN and is a wonderful place to wrestle with challenging and important concepts of character, caring, practical wisdom and human flourishing.

The book club meets every other Wednesday at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CT via Zoom.

Start Date: January 11, 2023

Estimated End Date: April 12, 2023

Deadline to Register:

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

The first five registrants will receive a FREE book. All students that register will receive a FREE book!

Upcoming Book

"Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing" by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe illuminates how to get back in touch with our wisdom—how to identify it, cultivate it, enact it, and how to make ourselves healthier, wealthier and wiser.

KNN Updates

Sue Cox, MD, has been leading the KNN Program Office efforts for engagement with new medical schools. These efforts have led to an upcoming in-person meeting in Nashville on Thursday, November 10, hosted by our colleagues at Belmont University.

These colleagues have been working on projects surrounding three areas of interest and will present their findings on: Flourishing Curriculum, Empathy Curriculum and Rural Pipeline/Admissions. This work has been conducted with a focus on the KNN Integrated Framework and with the intent to share ideas and solutions in reaching the goal of fully launching their schools in a supportive collaborative network.

Have an update to share? Please email us.

Upcoming Events 

November 7, 11 am - 12 pm CT | Virtues & Vocations presents Stephen Trzeciak, MD on Kindness, Compassion & Medicine

Physician and author, Stephen Trzeciak, MD, will discuss kindness, compassion and medicine as a part of the Virtues & Vocations webinar series, "Education for Flourishing: Pursuing Purpose in the Professions."

LEARN MORE AND REGISTER >

November 7 - 10 | 10th Annual Becker's Hospital CEO + CFO Roundtable

The KNN will be present at the Becker's Hospital Review Roundtable in Chicago! Visit us at booth 220.

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November 11 - 15 | Learn Serve Lead 2022: The Annual AAMC Meeting

Are you attending AAMC Learn Serve Lead in Nashville? Visit the KNN at booth 531, join our reception on November 13, or sign up for a session on the KNN integrated framework.

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Resources



• Students and Faculty Showcase Innovative and Forward-Thinking Medical Education Projects on National Stage  | Check out the article by Wayne State University students and faculty following their attendance and presentations at the first in-person KNN Conference.
• Caring: Achieving Completeness of Care in Practice (Video) | Watch as Bonnie Miller, MD, MMHC, explores how aspiring physicians can achieve and practice completeness of care.
• Meaning, Happiness, Morality and Flourishing (Audio) | Listen as Will Reusch joins the FlourishFM podcast to discuss the similarities and differences between influential contemporary theories of flourishing.