Dr P. Ravi Shankar has been facilitating medical humanities sessions for over eight years, first in Nepal and currently in Aruba in the Dutch Caribbean. He has a keen interest in and has written extensively on the subject. He has >> Read more
Tag: Program Development
What Is Medical Humanities and Why?
Commentary by Jack Coulehan, M.D., M.P.H., Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine and Fellow, Center for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Stony Brook University, New York “Medical humanities” is one of those I-know-one-when-I-see-one terms. Taken literally, the two words have about the >> Read more
Further Reflections on Medical Humanities
Commentary by Johanna Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Director, Program in Medical Humanities & Arts, University of California Irvine School of Medicine The intriguing musings of Brian Dolan on this blog (Medical Humanities: Education or Entertainment?) >> Read more
Medical Humanities: Education or Entertainment?
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
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