Contemplative Reflective Practice, Conocimiento, and Continuing Medical Education Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006
Barbara Shaw Anderson North Carolina State University
Keywords: Reflective practice, continuing medical education, meditation, ethics
Contemplative reflective practices, exemplified by Remen and Kabat-Zinn, nurture “subversive knowledges” that can help physicians and their educators address ethical issues in the health care system. Continuing medical education should encourage physicians to become what Varela terms “ethical experts.”