Medical Education

Prof. Orit

Karnieli-Miller

Humanist care

One of the challenges physicians face is managing difficult conversations, including breaking bad news. These conversations require high-level capabilities to identify different patients' needs, share information in a tailored manner, and address patients' emotions with empathy. Prof. Karnieli-Miller explores these challenging encounters from patients, family members, and physicians' perspectives. Her research focuses on understanding participants' needs and developing physicians' skills. Prof. Karnieli-Miller, as the director of communication skills training, studies andpublishes how to teach communication skills, including developing a revised protocol on how to break bad news She also identified physicians' personal and professional challenges and created a reflective practice protocol to prepare for these encounters. Furthermore, Prof Karnieli-Miller explores the medical culture and focuses on its impact on medical students' identity formation. Her studies focus on enhancing students' moral courage to speak up when faced with professionalism and patient safety breaches to enhance humanistic, compassionate, and trustworthy medical care.

Prof. Karnieli-Miller, PhD, is the Chair of the Department of Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine . She received her Ph.D. in Social Work from Haifa University in Israel with a specialty in communication in healthcare . She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Regenstrief Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine, focusing on professionalism and humanism in healthcare . Prof. Karnieli-Miller has been awarded numerous significant research grants and has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals within the field of medical education and communication in healthcare .