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Connecting with Patients Can Keep Physicians from Becoming ‘Uncomfortably Numb’
"Now we know who they are..." Benjamin Schwartz, MD, describes how he and his team changed their approach to surgery by creating connections to patients and their families before each procedure.
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Can You Mend a Broken Heart Through the Arts?
The arts can enrich not only our emotional lives, but our physical well-being. This article presents a summary, plus links to relevant studies and programs, of the heart-healthy benefits of engaging with music, visual arts, drawing, and more.
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New Issue of Journal of Medical Humanities
The latest issue of Journal of Medical Humanities features articles including "Illness Doula: Adding a New Role to Healthcare Practice," "'The Art of Insulin Treatment:' Diabetes, Insulin, and the 1920s," and "Dancing Intercorporeality: A Health Humanities Perspective on Dance as a Healing Art."
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A Lexicon of Concepts of Humanistic Medicine
Authors Erene Stergiopoulos and colleagues explore the different meanings of caring and compassion—the terminology associated with humanistic medicine—in the work of the Associated Medical Services (AMS) Phoenix Project.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR Featured Essay: "Illness as Muse" by Rafael Campo
The 10th anniversary issue of the Bellevue Literary Review, a journal of humanity and human experience published by NYU Langone Health, featured this essay by physician-poet Rafael Campo about what keeps drawing him to write about illness: "Yet still I resist the urge to write. I scold myself for my prurience. I fret about whether I might be too glib or too sentimental. I agonize over my stake in the telling. Illness may be a muse, but it is a particularly vexing one."
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New Annotation: Russell Teagarden on Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan
"The play focuses on the mental decline of Gladys, an 85-year-old woman, and the resilience of the human spirit as her family responds with grace and love."
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Highlights from the
Rudin Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Humanities
The Rudin Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Humanities was established as a core component of the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine (MSPHM) at NYU School of Medicine in 2014 through a generous grant from the Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation, Inc. The fellowship offers medical students and trainees the opportunity to conduct year-long research projects in medical humanities or biomedical ethics with funding support and the mentorship of our most expert faculty. Read more about the projects and experiences of some of the Rudin fellows:
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Narrative Medicine: Registration Now Open for Fall Basic Workshop
This Basic Workshop provides an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of Narrative Medicine. These practices are then applicable to unlimited clinical and non-clinical settings. From Friday at 2 pm to Sunday at 4 pm, participants gather for plenary presentations by the founders of the Division of Narrative Medicine alternating with small-group seminars. Participants will form small groups of eight that stay together throughout the weekend, while small group facilitators rotate through the groups.
Plenary presentations by faculty open up themes of how stories work, exploring concepts such as creativity, ethics, bearing witness, and empathy, while the small groups practice rigorous skills in close reading, creative writing, and responding to the writings of others.
Earlybird registration is available through September 6th. More information.
The Re-Humanising Revolution
The Re-Humanising Revolution blog welcomes contributions about anything relating to one's professional or patient role: a patient encounter, an experience you have had as a patient, a story about a colleague or learner experience. More information.
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- The Nocturnists Storytelling Contest, deadline 5/28/19
- Reimagine End of Life (San Francisco 2019), event proposal deadline 6/2/19
- Graphic Truths: The Making (and Unmaking) of a Doctor, deadline 6/30/19
- 2019 Conley Ethics Essay Contest, deadline 9/27/19
- Special Issue of Humanities: "Photo-Literary Disorders: Literature, Photography and Illness," deadline 10/1/19
- 2019 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 10/25/19
- Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Dementia Today, rolling deadline through 2/28/20
- Sharing Our Stories: Narratives, Poetry, and 55 Word Stories, Families, Systems, & Health, no deadline
- Call for Reviewers for The Polyphony, no deadline
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Events
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Silence and Memory: An Exploration of Music, Mind and Brain
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2019 UnLonely Symposium:
From Awareness to Solutions
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The UnLonely Film Festival Launch Celebration
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Science and Story Cafe
At the World Science Festival
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WE vs C: Stories of Triumph Over Breast Cancer
Performed by the Roxey Ballet in Lambertville, NJ
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The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour, Part Three
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Radical Listening: Narrative Medicine for a Polarized World
This intensive training brings together leaders in psychology, medicine, the humanities, social activism, and the creative arts to inspire and equip us to take radical action in the face of rising racism, sexism, classism, and nationalism. Presenters include Rita Charon, MD, PhD, a general internist and literary scholar who originated the field of narrative medicine, and Lipi Roy, MD, an internal physician board-certified in addiction medicine who is a clinical assistant professor at NYU Langone Health.
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2019 International Graphic Medicine Conference
"Que(e)rying Graphic Medicine: Paradigms, Power, and Practices," Hosted by Brighton and Sussex Medical School, at the Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton, UK
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Conveying Science Through Art: A Public Engagement Workshop
At The New York Academy of Sciences
Application required, deadline June 30, 2019
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dotMD 2019
dotMD is a 2 day festival of ideas for doctors and healthcare practitioners looking for something more from medicine. It aims to reawaken a sense of wonder and curiosity about medicine that some may have lost along the way—and help them find deeper meaning and satisfaction in their working lives.
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2019 Gold Humanism Summit
The first Gold Humanism Summit is a special gathering of supporters of humanism in healthcare, including GHHS members, faculty members supporting humanism in their medical or nursing school, Mapping the Landscape (MTL) researchers, healthcare CEOs who wants to infuse compassion into their organization's culture—anyone passionate about humanistic care. The Gold Humanism Summit will be run in conjunction with the Planetree International Conference on Person-Centered Care, allowing Gold attendees to also join Planetree sessions.
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