Kansas City University (KCU) continued its commitment to fostering the human element of medicine by installing 60 new osteopathic medical students from the Class of 2021 into the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020.
The GHHS recognizes students, residents and faculty who are exemplars of compassionate patient care and who serve as role models, mentors and leaders in medicine. Members are peer- nominated and are the ones whom others say they want taking care of their own family.
KCU medical students selected 39 of their peers from the Kansas City campus and 21 peers from the Joplin campus based on the “humanism” in their medical approach to patient care. The students were inducted during a virtual ceremony on each campus. The Joplin campus’s inaugural ceremony marked the creation of a new GHHS chapter and the induction of its very first members.
As part of the GHHS application process, students wrote essays about their commitment to patients on a human level. Jillian Baker, who was inducted into the KCU chapter, wrote: "In medical training, it is easy to focus on a diagnostic test, a disease process or the next educational goal. However, without humanism, these things are simply meaningless distractions. Prioritizing humanism requires daily intentionality to remember that your patients’ and colleagues’ lives are about much more than sickness or medicine.”
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation is a nonprofit organization working with healthcare professionals to ensure that compassion, respect and empathy are a key part of all healthcare interactions. Watch a video about the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
KCU Class of 2021 Students Inducted into Gold Humanism Honor Society
Joplin Campus
| Parker Adams Jillian Baker Stephanie Bates Connor Bridge Abigail Finder |
Sarah Gillen Jordan Greenfield Trevor Hall Kirk Jones Kevin Kain |
Courtney McClure Jonathan Montrose Mira Abdel Sattar Danae Schufeldt Jamie Shah |
Sanket Shah Laura Strojny Brandon Tompkins Kyle Varkoly Megan (Foster) Wheeler Kalee Woody |
Kansas City Campus
| Alexander Albrecht Anastasia Ambrosio David Bassily Ryan Bennion Luke Beyer Anastasia Bjelopetrovich Carli Boen Kaley Canova-Gaitros Tung Chu Bryan Clements |
Kyle Combe Mattias Dilling Carli Edwards Alyka Glor Fernandez Jonathan Gutierrez Katherine Haakana Cameron Hanson Lela Heza Olivia Igoe Michael Kortz |
Maria Lotis Danielle Mahon Sierra Miller Austin Mitchell Kalee Morris Youjin Na Revati Narawane Fulei Peng Farzeen Syed Mackenzie Taychert |
Maria Tran Jordan Troy Alex Tsai David Waples Brittany Wienclaw Danica Witter M Draper Andi Garcia Brian Kongs |
