Commentary by Brian Dolan, Ph.D., Professor of Social Medicine and Medical Humanities at University of California at San Francisco A few weeks ago, I hosted a workshop for faculty from a number of campuses who work within medical centers and >> Read more
Category: Program Development
Establishing a Medical Humanities Program at George Washington University School of Medicine
Commentary by Linda Raphael, Ph.D., Director of Medical Humanities and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences My introduction to medicine and humanities occurred at a Narrative Medicine Seminar in New York in 2003. I was attracted to the >> Read more
The Craft of Writing: A Workshop for Doctors-in-training
Commentary by Anna Reisman, M.D., Co-Director, Department of Internal Medicine Writers’ Workshop, Yale University School of Medicine In this blog, I’ll tell you about a writing workshop for residents at Yale that centers on the craft of writing, and I’ll >> Read more
The Patients as Teachers, Medical Students as Filmmakers VIdeo Project: The Video Slam
Commentary by Dan Shapiro, Ph.D., Director, Medical Humanities Program, University of Arizona College of Medicine Last year I asked 8 medical students to make films about patients. In pairs, they spent 8 months visiting and filming a patient and filming >> Read more