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“ I have experienced the TMC Fellowship as a precious and undeserved gift. Even as an undergraduate student, I longed to connect my interest in becoming a physician and my Christian faith. I was thrilled to come to Duke as a TMC Fellow between my second and third years of medical school. Before, I felt as if I was pursuing these questions alone. Now I have a community of friends pursuing them alongside me.”

Harrison Hines, TMC Fellow

In the Spotlight

The Church is Sick — It’s Time to Heal

In this article for Medium, Duke TMC alumna Danielle Ellis writes about the cancer of racism that is destroying the church. “I am a surgeon in-training. In surgical training, we learn how to take care of patients with surgical diseases from trauma to appendicitis to cancer. Cancer is a particularly complex disease, and one of [...]

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“My White Coat Feels Heavy”: The Experience of a Black Medical Student in an Era of Police Brutality and Injustice

TMC Fellow, Kirsten Simmons, in an article for Medium, reflects on the experience of a black medical student in an era of police brutality and injustice. “I woke up this morning ready to start the day. There’s a 74 degree sunny forecast for the beautiful Hope Valley neighborhood of Durham, NC. I predict I might [...]

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“Modern Medicine and the Deathly Hallows:” Latest Article by TMC alumnus Dr. Brewer Eberly

TMC alumnus Dr. Brewer Eberly recently contributed an article as part of a series on the nihilism of modern medicine for the Theopolis Institute. In it, he argues that while the diagnosis of modern medicine as nihilistic is correct in some ways, his experiences as a family medicine resident reveal the beautiful in-breaking of the [...]

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Theology, Medicine & Culture Events

CANCELLED: ARETE MEDICAL ETHICS SUMMER SEMINAR

Monday, June 15, 2020, 9AM | Duke University

CANCELLED due to COVID-19. Please contact Professor John Rose with questions: john.rose@duke.edu This seminar invites students to examine the central ethical questions that arise in the everyday practice of medicine and to interpret those questions through a moral framework drawing from both natural law and medicine’s traditional orientation toward the patient’s health. This framework will [...]