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John D. Yoon, MD, is an Associate Professor in Medicine at the University of Chicago. He is an academic hospitalist, clinical ethicist, and medical educator with research interests in virtue ethics, moral psychology, character development, and professional formation in medical education. As a co-investigator on Project Good Physician, a longitudinal study of medical students funded by the New Science Virtues Project at the University of Chicago, he investigates professional identity formation and the well-being of physicians, emphasizing the role of religion and spirituality in shaping moral formation for physicians-in-training. Dr. Yoon is actively engaged in developing new educational initiatives that promote the study of religion, ethics, and medicine among medical students and residents. His vision is to establish a new field in medical education chaplaincy, aimed at providing spiritual care and addressing challenges like clinician burnout amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Yoon holds a four-year certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Ignatian Tradition. His work addresses vocational discernment and the wellbeing of clinicians in the medical field.
Department of Philosophy