From the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health and the Gold Foundation

Artists, activism and AIDS

In the 1980s and 1990s, many artists used their creative work to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic. This feature highlights posters from around the world that were used in public health campaigns to challenge fear and ignorance, raise funds, and share information.

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Drawing, making music and writing poetry can support healing and bring more humanity to health care in US hospitals

In an essay that looks at how opportunities for creative expression can benefit both patients and clinicians, Marlene Figueroa Gray notes: "it may be that art-making offers something that medicine can’t."

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Pediatric Resident Perceptions of a Narrative Medicine Curriculum

In this recent study, authors Raymond A. Cattaneo, Natalie González, Abby Leafe, and Rachel Fleishman highlight a longitudinal narrative medicine curriculum designed specifically for pediatric residents.

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Transitioning From Academic to Narrative Writing

Dr. Arthur Lazarus shares how he is "finding [his] writing voice," as he learns to shift from the academic style of writing he was trained in, to a narrative style that centers the experiences of patients and clinicians through storytelling.

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Featured Annotation: Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe

In this annotation, Steven Field notes: "The middle and later years of the nineteenth century were a time of expansion and change for medicine in America.... It was only natural that medical and health-related issues would appear in the literature of the time, as they do in the writing of several authors, including Hawthorne and Poe."

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Art, Design and Humanities

This collection in the Gold Resource Library celebrates the diverse ways art, design, and humanities can be integrated into healthcare practice and reflection. Featured items include the Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education (FRAHME) project, RX/Museum, Women of Color on the Front Lines: Portraits of Unsung Heroes, and more.

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Quick Links:

• Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so
• Best of Graphic Medicine—2023 Graphic Medicine International Collective Awards
• To master the art of close looking, learn to hold time still
• What radiologists can learn from looking at art
• After 18 years living with cancer, a poet offers 'Fifty Entries Against Despair'

If you believe in the importance of compassion in healthcare, and would love to connect with others who do, too, don’t miss the 2024 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You, taking place February 29-March 2 in Atlanta, Georgia. Featured speakers include Dr. Kimberly Manning, national voice of humanism and inspiring storyteller; Dr. Danielle Ofri, Bellevue Literary Review Editor-in-Chief and author of When We Do Harm; Dr. Wes Ely, expert on humanistic ICU care and author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath; and many more!

• Become an Exhibitor or Sponsor: collaborate, showcase, and amplify your organization’s work around humanism in healthcare
• Are you someone who enjoys a challenge? Join the Healthcare Barriers Hackathon at the Gold Humanism Summit

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More opportunities:

• Be part of a research study exploring Humanistic Practice (open to U.S.-based physicians), sign up for a focus group in Jan. or Feb.
• American Osler Society Medical Trainee Poetry Anthology, deadline 12/31/23
• William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition (open to students attending allopathic or osteopathic schools of medicine in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada), deadline 12/31/23
• 15th Annual History Of Medicine Night, abstract deadline 1/16/24
• Graphic Medicine 2024 Conference: call for abstracts, deadline 1/26/24
• Health Humanities: Dismantling Structural Injustice in Healthcare (faculty development - virtual longitudinal institute), application deadline 3/5/24
• Journal of Medical Humanities: call for poems on the theme of coming apart and/or becoming whole, deadline 3/15/24
• Journal of Loss and Trauma: call for manuscripts for a Special Issue on "Mindfulness for mitigating loss and trauma," deadline 3/31/24
• AMA Journal of Ethics: call for artwork - "Embodiment in Art Practice," deadline 7/30/24

Jan. 25

Graphic Medicine (part of the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health's quarterly speaker series, "Diverse Voices: Intersectionality and the Health of Women") (online)

Feb. 29 - Mar. 2

2024 Gold Humanism Summit: The Person in Front of You (Atlanta, GA)

Mar. 20

From Medical Memoir to CPR : A Conversation with Physician-Writer Dr. Sunita Puri (hybrid)

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