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Doctors Who Create Spotlights NYU School of Medicine & the Intersection of Art and Medicine
Doctors Who Create partnered with the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at NYU School of Medicine to produce a four-episode Spotlight Series featuring: Medicine & Improv, Medicine & Writing, Medicine & Art, and Medicine & Dance. The first episode features a conversation with Nick Kanellis, who taught a "Medical Improv" seminar, and his students, who shared about their experiences.
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Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient
"My Life, My Story" is a VA-based project in which hospitalized veterans tell their life stories to a volunteer writer, who then produces a narrative that becomes part of the patient's medical record. This personal addition can not only help create connections between patients and their healthcare teams, but also provide vital information that can improve treatment.
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"The Weight of Pain":
An Innovative Use of Art in Medical Education to Enhance Pain Management
This recent paper by Bonnie Marr, MD, and colleagues explores how museum-based sessions with art educators can impact how clinicians understand their own thinking patterns when it comes to pain and pain management.
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Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation's Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup features summaries of recently published studies on humanism in healthcare. Their latest roundup highlights articles on the development of a tool to measure patient assessment of clinical compassion, how to map the language of humanistic medicine, and more.
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR: Featured Essay, New Issue
BLR's latest issue features the winners of the 2019 Prizes, including Julia Michie Bruckner's essay, "Harvest Moon," selected by judge Elisabeth Rosenthal as winner of the Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction. The essay recounts a wrenching night when Bruckner was an exhausted resident in the hospital, caring for a brain-dead young boy connected to a ventilator while trying to help his mother say goodbye: "What to do or say in such a time? I knew no benediction for this upcoming night, nor for the sacrifice of the next day."
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New Annotation:
Howard Trachtman on The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
"Makkai succeeds in capturing the humanity and lethality of the HIV epidemic and the extreme consequences for the victims and the survivors alike."
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
AMSA's Humanistic Elective in Activism, Reflective Transformation, and Integrative Medicine
The Humanistic Elective in Activism, Reflective Transformation, and Integrative Medicine (HEART-IM), will provide up to twenty-five (25) fourth-year medical students with a unique and rewarding way to conclude their medical school careers and prepare for their future work as healer-physicians. The experience takes place March 30 – April 24, 2020 at the Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, California. Applicants should have a strong interest in integrative medicine, activism, and exploring the path of healing within the modern world and medical system. Apply by September 15, 2019. More information.
Narrative Medicine Online Certificate Program
Columbia University's Certification in Narrative Medicine program is developed specifically for clinicians and narrativists who seek ways to bring narrative methods into their clinical or teaching practices. Designed for persons who cannot devote full-time to academic pursuits, this program introduces students to the principles and practice of narrative medicine through rigorous courses leading to intellectual growth, interpersonal relationships, and personal insight. Those who complete the Certification Program gain the equivalent of 6 credits toward the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine, should they elect to continue their professional study of Narrative Medicine. More information. Application deadline: July 1, 2019.
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- Graphic Truths: The Making (and Unmaking) of a Doctor, deadline 6/30/19
- 2019 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 10/25/19
- Special issue of Medical Humanities on "Global Health Humanities," proposal deadline 6/30/19. Please email proposals, and any questions, to Jessica Howell or Narin Hassan
- Narrative Medicine: Fall Basic Workshop, earlybird registration deadline 9/6/19
- 2019 Conley Ethics Essay Contest, deadline 9/27/19
- Special Issue of Humanities: "Photo-Literary Disorders: Literature, Photography and Illness," deadline 10/1/19
- Critically sick: New phenomenologies of illness, madness, and disability, paper proposal deadline 10/15/19
- 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
- Emerald Studies in the Humanities, Aging and Later Life, no deadline
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Events
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Classic Charcoal Drawing: Anatomy
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Approaches to Arts-as-Research Practice
This course is best suited to researchers, scholars, and graduate students in the field of health, social sciences, and education, who are interested in exploring and deepening their knowledge and practice of graphic, visual and performative methods as part of their research or teaching. (At the University of Toronto)
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Bellevue Literary Review Reading
Bellevue Literary Review, a journal of humanity and human experience published by the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health, creatively explores the intersection of medicine and literature through poetry, fiction, and essays. To celebrate the publication of the BLR's latest issue, editor-in-chief Danielle Ofri hosts an evening of readings featuring writers from the issue.
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Getting the History of HIV/AIDS Right
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Strand Summer Studio - Basic Human Anatomy
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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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The Examined Life Conference
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host its 13th annual three-day conference focusing on the links between medicine and the arts.
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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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