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

Listening as medicine: A thematic analysis

What constitutes empathetic listening? This study, by Drs. Rachel Kishton, Heta Patel, Divya Saini, Jeffrey Millstein, and Aaron Levy, analyzed personal narratives from patients, caregivers, and clinicians to note common themes, including "connection and trust," "emotion and vulnerability," and more.

Continue reading in Patient Experience Journal

Harnessing the Humanities to Foster Staff Resilience: An Annual Arts and Humanities Rounds at a Children’s Hospital

For over 15 years, a program called the "Ludwig Arts and Humanities Rounds" has created a safe space for healthcare clinicians and other hospital staff to share music, poetry, visual arts, and more. In this article, Dr. Wynne Morrison and colleagues review the program's origins, challenges, and benefits.

Continue reading in Journal of Medical Humanities

Body, Healing & Trauma

This themed collection from the OnBeing archive features conversations with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on what it means to be a healer, poet Gregory Orr on the language of grief, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen on how we live with loss, and more.

Explore the collection on OnBeing

Gaudeamus Igitur at 40 — A Tribute and Assessment

"For there may be no answer / and you will know too little again..." Drs. Elizabeth A. Fleming and Brittany A. Bettendorf examine and celebrate Gaudeamus Igitur, cardiologist-poet John Stone's moving tribute to the practice of medicine. As the authors note, "The entirety of the poem is a physician’s purpose."

Continue reading in JAMA 

NYU Langone LitMed Database: New Annotation, Your Heart, Your Scars by Adina Talve-Goodman

In this recent annotation, Steven Field writes of Your Heart, Your Scars: "This slim volume of essays written by a young woman who had a heart transplant packs a wallop, albeit an understated one. The essays—there are seven of them—deal with life experiences, mostly in the form of encounters with other people, mostly post-transplant."

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Read the extraordinary stories of the Gold Foundation's 2023 National Humanism in Medicine Medalists

Four humanistic healthcare leaders were honored last week with the Gold Foundation's National Humanism in Medicine Medal. Read about Dr. Gina S. Brown, Dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences at Howard University; Dr. Richard I. Levin, President and CEO of the Gold Foundation, who will be stepping down this summer after an extraordinary 12-year tenure; the Honorable Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; and Dr. Eileen Sullivan-Marx, Dean of the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.

Quick Links:

• How the Arts Can Benefit Your Mental Health (No Talent Required)
• Manifesto for a Multilingual Medical Humanities
• How a blend of science and art is improving neurological health
• Literature and Medicine's 40th Anniversary issue
• Being-Opposite-Illness: Phenomenological Ontology in Medical Education and Clinical Practice

• Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Humanism in Healthcare Award, nomination deadline extended to 6/28/23
• 2023 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/22/23
• Writing Medicine: A Wellness Intervention for Healthcare Workers (Research Study, no deadline noted)
• The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America (call for audio stories, no deadline noted)

June 26

Ethics and the Theater Presents: The Catastrophist (in person, NYC)

July 8

Mindful Practice: Flourishing in Clinical Care (online)

July 10

Navigating Grief Through the Healing Lens of Photos (online)

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Feb 27

Training Our Eyes, Minds, and Hearts: Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Care Professionals (online)

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