Medical training shapes what we know, but also who we become. Yet too often, students approach learning with fear, self-protection and the need to appear certain. Dr. Benjamin Frush invites us to imagine another way — one that views the unknown as opportunity, knowledge as something to share and humility as a source of strength. Drawing on theologian Paul Griffiths’ distinction between the vice of curiositas and the virtue of studiositas, Dr. Frush explores how a healthier moral posture toward learning can transform both medical education and patient care.

Dr. Benjamin Frush, MD, MA, is a palliative care physician and the McDonald Agape Fellow in Bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He is a former fellow at the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellowship at Duke Divinity School; a current bioethics scholar at the Paul Ramsey Institute; and a former fellow at the Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). His work in AMA Journal of Ethics, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics focuses on virtue, moral formation and end-of-life care. We first heard him speak at the Conference on Medicine and Religion and knew right away we had to bring him as a speaker. You won’t want to miss this conversation.