Activities

We offer continuing education for practicing physicians through our flagship residential programs, 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.

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

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

Our research agenda addresses the most pressing questions at the intersection of medicine, wellbeing, 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 in medical education
• Assessment approaches that support rather than undermine physician flourishing

SCFiM collaborates with researchers across Switzerland and internationally through its network of Flourishing in Medicine Centers of Excellence.