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

Arts and Health: The Role of the Arts Sector in Promoting Resilience and Well-Being

"Living an artful life is essential to living a healthy life," notes the introduction to this special issue of American Artscape from the National Endowment for the Arts. Articles highlight programs across the nation that are contributing to the health of individuals and communities through music, theater, visual arts, storytelling, and dance.

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Artistic medical students and The Match®

AAMCNews talks with seven fourth-year medical students who have kept their creative pursuits alive throughout medical school training, highlighting how the arts and sciences intersect in important, meaningful ways. The artwork of one of the students, Arinze Ochuba, was recently featured in the Gold Humanism Summit Art Gallery.

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Hospital space interpreted according to Heidegger’s concepts of care and dwelling 

"Care goes beyond the act of treatment," writes Dr. Hye Youn Park in this article that looks at hospital spaces — and how their design impacts the human experiences that occur within them — through the lens of Heidegger’s concepts of dwelling and care.

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Health Humanities Syllabus Repository

The Health Humanities Consortium Syllabus Repository provides health humanities educators access to a collection of curricula, as well as the opportunity to share their own. Featured syllabi include "Literature, Mental illness, and the Self" and "Pandemics in Context."

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Featured Annotation: 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick

In this annotation on the NYU Langone LitMed Database, Luke Bonanni writes, "Kubrick’s masterpiece asks us to ponder who we are, where we are going, and what we will become. It is important to extend these questions to the field of medicine..."

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Gold Resource Library: Reading Corner

One of the collections in the Gold Resource Library is a Reading Corner highlighting Gold Reading Lists for Compassionate Clinicians, book reviews, and other websites, databases, and opportunities that focus on medical humanities.

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Quick Links:

• Creative writing can help improve one’s health: a South African study shows how
• “Inside Out of Mind”: Alternative Realities, Dementia and Graphic Medicine
• Moving Bodies Across Medical Humanities and Sport and Exercise Sciences
• Journal of Dental Humanities: A Journal Dedicated to Connecting the Profession of Dentistry to the Humanities
• Being a patient in the intensive care unit: a narrative approach to understanding patients’ experiences of being awake and on mechanical ventilation
• Explore the 2024 Gold Humanism Summit Art Gallery

More opportunities:

• "Uncertainty in Medicine": call for stories for new podcast series from The Nocturnists in collaboration with Arts Practica, deadline 3/24/24
• Journal of Loss and Trauma: call for manuscripts for a Special Issue on "Mindfulness for mitigating loss and trauma," deadline 3/31/24
• Harvard Macy Institute's Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship, application deadline 4/22/24
• 2nd Annual HumanisEM Conference: A Nexus for Equity: Exploring the foundational role of the Health Humanities in addressing inequities in health and catalyzing connection across differences, submission deadline 4/22/24
• AMA Journal of Ethics: call for artwork - "Embodiment in Art Practice," deadline 7/30/24
• 2024 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 9/23/24

Apr. 1

THE HUMANN PROJECT: The Humanities Underpinning Machines & Artificial Neural Networks (online)

Apr. 3

Narrative Medicine Rounds: I Heard Her Call My Name, a conversation with Lucy Sante moderated by Jae Sevelius (online)

Apr. 3-10

ReelAbilities Film Festival | New York (in person + online)

Apr. 4

"Can Comics Improve our Health(care)? : An Introduction to Graphic Medicine" with MK Czerwiec (online)

Apr. 10

Let’s Learn: Writing, Grieving, and Growing (online)

Apr. 10

"The Story is at the Center: The Shared Territory of Writing and Medicine" with Christine Montross (online)

Apr. 10-13

Social, Emotional, and Community Health: Humanities Interventions (Phoeniz, AZ)

Apr. 26-28

Narrative Intersections: Communicating Across Differences (New York, NY)

May 9

Narrative Repair and Moral Injury in Healthcare: A Workshop with Jay Baruch (online)

Jun. 10

Gold Foundation Annual Gala (New York, NY)

Jul. 15-19

Health and the Human Condition: First-Person Essays (Truro, MA)

Jul. 16-18

2024 Graphic Medicine Conference (Athlone, Ireland)

Jul. 20-24

10th International Medical Improv Train-the-Trainer Workshop (Chicago, IL)

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