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Winners of 2021 Vilcek-Gold Award Announced
The Vilcek Foundation and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation recently named Drs. Jirayut “New” Latthivongskorn and Denisse Rojas Marquez, co-founders of Pre-Health Dreamers, the recipients of the 2021 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare. This award shines a spotlight on immigrant leaders in U.S. healthcare and recognizes the positive impact that humanistic care has on public health.
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Transforming empathy to empathetic practice amongst nursing and drama students
Alison L. Reeves and co-authors tap into the process an actor follows when getting into character as a way to teach nursing students how to communicate empathy.
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Evaluating poetry on COVID-19: attitudes of poetry readers toward corona poems
This article, by Jeroen Dera, poses the question of how readers of poetry react to the phenomenon of “corona poetry” by assessing their attitude toward poems on Covid-19, and explores the idea of poetry for the arts versus poetry for daily use.
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Words Matter: An Antibias Workshop for Health Care Professionals to Reduce Stigmatizing Language
Julia Raney, MD, and colleagues designed and implemented an interactive workshop to teach health care professionals a framework to identify and replace stigmatizing language in clinical practice, and evaluated its impact based on feedback from workshop participants.
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Highlights from Projects and People in
Humanities and Ethics at NYU Langone Health
Featured Annotation: Devon Zander on Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by
Lori Gottlieb
“Gottlieb’s writing is unique as she places a magnifying glass on herself and her own experiences in therapy just as much, if not more, than those of her patients.... But, there is another unspoken subject that she addresses: you, the reader.”
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Featured Article:
"Closing the Disclosure Gap: Medical Errors in Pediatrics"
"How...do we bridge the gap that exists between the professional duty to disclose errors and a trainee’s ability to do so?" Matthew Lin, a former Rudin Medical Ethics and Humanities Fellow, and Hannah Famiglietti explore ideas about educational interventions for trainees that address the tenets of medical error disclosure.
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The Burns Archive Photo of the Week
Changing a Dressing After Mastoid Surgery,
Bellevue Hospital Post-Op Rounds, circa 1930
These physicians and nurses are changing the dressing and packing the mastoid area. A dressing cart by the nurse on the left contains unfurled bandages and medications. Abscess cavities were packed with dressings soaked in antiseptics. In pre-antibiotic days otitis media often extended into the mastoid air cells and resulted in a chronic mastoiditis. At times, abscesses developed requiring emergency surgery, as extension into the brain resulted in death. To prevent these abscesses, chronic mastoiditis was frequently operated upon, becoming one of the most commonly performed procedures though it often resulted in loss of hearing. A major advancement in the twentieth century was the development of procedures that saved hearing. In the surgical treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media it was recognized that multiple approaches were necessary. The diseased tissue could be removed through the ear canal or via a mastoid approach combined with tympanoplasty. Two basic mastoidectomy procedures evolved in the mid-twentieth century. The ‘canal wall up’ and the ‘canal wall down’ procedures. The latter, described by Gustave Bondy, MD, in 1910, was a modification of the mastoidectomy and became, for most surgeons, the procedure of choice. To obliterate large cavities various techniques were eventually developed, from muscle flap insertions to bone grafts. The advent of antibiotics changed the management of otitis media and mastoiditis. The emergency cortical mastoidectomy procedure became relegated to history.
With thanks to The Burns Archive for providing historic medical photographs and commentary for this weekly feature
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
NEJM Medical Fiction Contest, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine is holding a contest for short medical fiction. Entries will be evaluated by members of NEJM’s editorial staff, and finalists will be judged by a panel of all-star writers of medical fiction: Perri Klass, Abraham Verghese, and Daniel Mason. The winning entry will be published in the Journal. Entries welcome from June 15 through July 15, 2021.
Rules and Submission Instructions
Arts-Based Research in Health Care
The July 2022 issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics welcomes wide ranging explorations of how arts-based approaches to investigation promote scientific rigor, generate evidence, communicate outcomes, and illuminate key ethical and aesthetic insights about what it means to care well and be cared for well. Deadline: August 29, 2021. More information (scroll down to July 2022 header).
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- National Organization For Arts In Health (NOAH) Annual Conference: The Art of Resilience, proposal deadline 6/14/21
- Gold Humanism Scholars at the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators, deadline 6/15/21
- Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium 2021 - Engaging Across Disciplines: Toward a Practice of Transdisciplinarity, proposal deadline 6/15/21
- The Art of Illness: Inventing, Accusing, and Doubting Health Conditions, finished papers are due August 1, 2021
- Global Bioethics: "Redefining Global Bioethics in Today’s World," submissions will be accepted until 9/1/21
- Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Dementia, rolling deadline, submissions welcomed up to September 2021
- 2021 Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition, deadline 9/15/21
- The Disability Gaze: Material and Visual Approaches, abstract deadline 9/15/21
- 2021 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/24/21
- 2021 Conley Ethics Essay Contest, deadline 9/24/21
- The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, application deadline 9/30/21
- Humanising Epidemiology: Non-medical Investigations into Epi/Pandemic Phenomena, submissions will be accepted through December 2021
- Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Medical Humanities, rolling deadline
- Emerald Studies In The Humanities, Ageing And Later Life, submit a proposal / no deadline noted
- Historical Perspectives in Art Section of The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation, no deadline
- Literature and Medicine Seeks Book Review Suggestions, no deadline
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Events & Conferences
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5th Annual UnLonely Film Festival Launch Event
The 5th Annual UnLonely Film Festival is a collection of 40 short-narrative, animated, and documentary films dealing with the issue of loneliness. They are available to stream at unlonelyfilms.org all year long.
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Virtual: Life and Death in 1918
The Tenement Museum explores what made the flu of 1918 so devastating and how New York City responded to this global crisis.
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Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health
A conversation with Dr. Lauren Barron (Baylor University) about the role of humanities in medical education.
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The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Annual Gala
Honoring Drs. Anthony Fauci, Wayne Riley, and Eric Topol with the National Humanism in Medicine Medal
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Facing Grief in the HealthCare Workplace
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Association for Medical Humanities Conference 2021: Making Space
Held at the University of Limerick, 15-17 June 2021
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The History of Vaccines: How the World Learned Not to Go Viral
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Writing the Historical Essay With Hadley Meares
Four Saturday sessions beginning June 19
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THE LINE Encore Streaming
First performed live on Zoom on July 8, 2020, the world premiere play was viewed more than 55,000 times in 18 countries during its limited streaming run last summer. Crafted from firsthand interviews with New York City medical first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic, THE LINE cuts through the media and political noise to reveal the lived experiences of frontline medical workers.
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Around the Table: Protecting The Mental Health of Frontline Healthcare Professionals: A Call to Action
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Gold Human InSight Webinar
"We Are All Perfectly Fine: Lessons On Humor and Resilience" with Alan Alda & Dr. Jillian Horton
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Quarantine Spaces w/ Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
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Make your Own Memento Mori: Befriending Death with Art, History and the Imagination
Four-week online course with Morbid Anatomy founder Joanna Ebenstein
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