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Medical school receives grant
to teach about faith and medicine

     WASHINGTON (UMNS) -- Emory University School of Medicine, a
United Methodist-related institution located in Atlanta, is one of
six medical schools awarded $10,000 grants to develop a course for
future doctors on the connection between spirituality and health.
     The Rev. Mary Lynn Dell, a psychiatrist and an ordained
minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), will offer
"Faith and Medicine" in the spring semester of the 1996-97
academic year as an elective for second-year medical students.
     Dell said the almost 30 hours of classtime will survey the
major religions including how they may affect a patient's attitude
toward diet, exercise, sexuality, suffering or death.
     She said she wants the students to recognize their own
religious biases -- "both good and bad." She also wants them to
learn to work with clergy "to get the spiritual needs of patients
met." An assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, Dell
said one of the topics to be considered will be faith and abuse.
     Dell, who earned the M.T.S. and Th.M. at United Methodist-
related Candler School of Theology, expressed the desire "to raise
students' ... appreciation for the spiritual lives of their
patients and the importance that religious faith has in people."
     Almost 20 schools submitted proposals for the funds. The
grants were awarded by the National Institute for Healthcare
Research -- a private, not-profit organization -- and funded by
the John Templeton Foundation.
     Other recipients were Washington University School of
Medicine, St. Louis; George Washington University School of
Medicine, Washington; Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine, Cleveland; Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest
University, Winston-Salem, N.C.; and Robert C. Byrd Health
Sciences Center of West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
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