Madison Lamar.

HARROGATE, Tenn. — Madison Lamar of Sale City, Ga., was inducted into the Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM) Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) inaugural class on May 12, 2017, at the Woodlake Golf and Country Club in Tazewell, Tennessee. Inductees included 21 students from the LMU-DCOM Class of 2018, and one alumna from the LMU-DCOM Class of 2017.

The GHHS is a signature program of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, an international non-profit organization committed to fostering and maintaining a culture of compassion, caring and respect in health care. LMU-DCOM applied for and was granted permission to launch a chapter earlier this year. Rick Slaven, director of the LMU-DCOM Center for Simulation and Training serves as the GHHS chapter liaison.

“It is a huge honor to be selected as a GHHS member. The GHHS is one of only three honor societies listed on the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS), which gives them a competitive edge above other candidates applying for the same residency,” Slaven said. “It’s a very prestigious honor as well because membership is limited to less than 10 percent of students per class.”

Student inductees were nominated by their classmates as exemplars of compassionate patient-centered care. Each nominee had to submit a personal statement as well as present a project promoting humanism, inspiring and nurturing humanism in others.

GHHS was founded by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in 2002. To date, there are over 140 chapters at medical schools across the nation, as well as internationally. LMU-DCOM is one of only 14 osteopathic schools to be granted a chapter by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation.

The GHHS recognizes the top 10 percent of students in their class who exemplify humanism in medicine as demonstrated by qualities of integrity, excellence, compassion, altruism, respect and empathy towards patients.