From the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health and the Gold Foundation | | |
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Humanities
in Healthcare
August 2023
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Reading Kafka in the Hospital Cafeteria
When an injury coincides with retirement from her clinical career, Dr. Suzanne Koven revisits Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, and finds herself seeing it in a new light: "Like Gregor, I found myself strangely muted. There is an essential loneliness to being ill or injured."
Continue reading in New England Journal of Medicine
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‘Pushed into humanity’: can learning about storytelling make better doctors?
Drs. Mariam Tokhi and Fiona Reilly, physicians and teachers at the University of Melbourne, turned to narrative medicine to connect more deeply with their patients and become better advocates. This profile highlights how they are introducing the practice to their students as the field of narrative medicine continues to grow in Australia.
Continue reading in The Guardian
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Forming Physicians: Evaluating the Opportunities and Benefits of Structured Integration of Humanities and Ethics into Medical Education
Through a qualitative project, Cassie Eno and colleagues examined and analyzed multiple sources of student experience and perception data to evaluate the outcomes of integrating humanities and ethics into a pre-clerkship medical education curriculum.
Continue reading in Journal of Medical Humanities
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An Integrative Review of Humanities-Based Activities in Baccalaureate Nursing Education
Elizabeth A. Byma and Lisa Lycette explore the types of humanities interventions used in undergraduate nursing courses and the impact of including the humanities in nursing curricula.
Continue reading in Nurse Education in Practice
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NYU Langone LitMed Database: New Annotation, American Sirens by Kevin Hazzard
“[The book] reveals the story of the first fully trained paramedics who practiced life-saving medicine beyond hospital walls. Celebrated in Hazzard’s account are the Black men from the segregated Hill District of Pittsburgh that the visionary physician Peter Safar, inventor of CPR, recruited and trained.”
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Gold Foundation Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup
The latest Research Roundup highlights recent articles about how clinician well-being is measured & supported, the impact of the Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy, the effects of narrative medicine workshops for ER residents, and the ways in which art museums can contribute to flourishing in medicine.
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities | |
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2024 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You
The 2024 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You, taking place February 29-March 2 in Atlanta, Georgia, will convene the Gold Foundation's many community members to explore best practices and strategies to fuel change and inspire action. All supporters of humanism in healthcare are welcome. This interprofessional, international event will be focused on igniting humanism to create the tangible changes necessary to heal the heart of healthcare.
Here are three ways to participate:
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Submit an abstract (lecture, panel, workshop, poster); deadline: September 12
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Submit artwork for an art gallery and silent auction; deadline: October 1
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Become an Exhibitor or Sponsor: please reach out to Pia Pyne Miller, Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development, at pmiller@gold-foundation.org to collaborate, showcase, and amplify your organization’s work around humanism in healthcare
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Global Creative Competition for Healthcare Professions Students: Healthy Planet, Healthy People, deadline 9/1/23
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Journeys (first edition on "Microaggressions and Allyship") - seeking authors, artists, editors, and reviewers | open to healthcare professions students, deadline 9/1/23
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2023 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/22/23
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Health Humanities Consortium Annual Meeting 2024: “Social, Emotional, and Community Health—Humanities Interventions,” deadline 9/29/23
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American Osler Society Medical Trainee Poetry Anthology, deadline 12/31/23
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