Activities

CFM-F's work spans three interconnected domains: teaching, curriculum development, and research. Together, they form a coherent effort to transform medical education and clinical culture.

Teaching

We offer continuing education for practicing physicians through our flagship residential workshops (AIKA and PACS), as well as integrated courses for medical students at the University of Fribourg and the University of Lausanne.

Our teaching methodology is experiential — drawing on mindfulness practice, narrative medicine, deep listening, small group dialogue, poetry, and music to cultivate presence and self-awareness in clinical work.

Curriculum Design

CFM-F explores how medical curricula and assessment systems can be redesigned to actively support physician well-being and professional identity — and to reduce the burnout-inducing patterns that are often deeply embedded in medical training culture.

A particular focus is placed on strengthening the physician's identity as a unified personal and professional development, integrating reflective practice as a core element of medical education and evaluation.

Research

Our research agenda addresses the most pressing questions at the intersection of medicine, well-being, and professional identity:

• Professional satisfaction, meaning, and burnout trajectories among junior doctors
• The impact of mindfulness training on clinical reasoning and decision-making
• How AI is reshaping medical identity and the physician-patient relationship
• Existential dimensions of medical work: encounters with suffering, death, and dying during medical education
• Assessment approaches that support rather than undermine physician flourishing

CFM-F collaborates with researchers across Switzerland and internationally through its network of Flourishing in Medicine Centres of Excellence.