Table 3.

How HEART affected graduates’ personal, professional, and skill development

Theme	Personal Development (%)	Professional Development (%)	Most Important Skill (%)
1. Self-discovery - personal growth, reflection, listening to or knowing oneself better	38	21	17
2. Resilience - getting through training/difficult times, avoiding burnout	25	18	5
3. Self-care – coping skills used to promote “balance”, “well-being”, or “self-healing”	38	15	33
4. Spirituality - specific mention of spirituality or faith	3	4	4
5. Effective communication - communication/conflict resolution skills, hearing others	10	17	16
6. Leadership - development of one’s own leadership skills	3	6	2
7. Humanism - kindness, compassion or empathy toward patients/others	5	17	14
8. Collegial development - connecting with like-minded individuals, community	43	37	17
9. Motivation - inspiration, validation, feeling good about one’s chosen career	16	13	2
10. Re-envisioning of medicine - broader vision of medical practice, professional values, or comments about becoming a “healer”	19	31	4
11. Power and responsibility in medicine - activism, social responsibility, hierarchy	4	2	0
12. CAM knowledge - as related to patient care, other cultural views of health/illness	11	23	12

Graduates were asked to explain how HEART had affected their personal development (n = 91 respondents), their professional development (n = 84), and “What one skill did you take away from HEART that has been most important to you?” (n = 122). Shown are the percent of those responding whose comments contained each of the designated themes. Themes fell into 3 main categories: relationship to self (1–4), relationship to others (5–8), and relationship to medicine (9–12).