2020 National Initiative Spotlight
GHHS and SNMA Partner for Anti-racism Series at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center

GHHS members at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center developed a virtual learning series in partnership with the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) surrounding anti-racism in society and in healthcare. The series, called "Uncomfortable Conversations," included six sessions that were attended by students, faculty, and administrators from all colleges at UTHSC. At these sessions, participants discussed articles and movies surrounding topics like discriminatory housing policies and the justice system.

GHHS member Radha Patel, Class of 2021, said, "The goal of the Gold Humanism Honor Society is to improve health care through placing human interests, values, and dignity at the core of teaching and practice. The COVID pandemic as well as the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have brought light to the hard fact that the interests, values, and dignity of the black community are being left out of our teaching and practice. We, as future healthcare professionals, can do more and be more for our patients."
Golden Glimmer #6: What does working in healthcare make you thankful for? 
Golden Glimmer #6 brings back a call for Haiku. Haiku is a traditional, three-line, Japanese poem that contains seventeen syllables. The first and third line contain five syllables each, while the second line contains seven syllables (5/7/5).

This time, we are asking you to share Haiku about what working in healthcare makes you thankful for. Learn more about Golden Glimmers HERE.
Save the Date for Solidarity Week and Thank A Resident Day!
Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care – February 15-19, 2021
Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care is a weeklong recognition event. GHHS chapters, medical schools, and patient care institutions from across the country promote activities to celebrate their dedication to ensuring compassionate, patient-centered care. Check out the 2020 celebrations HERE.
Thank a Resident Day – February 26, 2021
Residency is a key component of graduate medical training, offering an in-depth exposure to medical practice. It can often lead to long working hours matched with many responsibilities. Residents serve as the “house staff” of the hospital and are an integral part to the healthcare team, often serving as indispensable resources for medical students, especially during a clinical clerkship. Join the Gold Humanism Honor Society in bringing to light the importance of the residence staff and encouraging medical students at chapters throughout the nation to show our gratitude and appreciation on February 26, 2021! 
Apply now for GHHS Chapter Activity Grants
Funding for chapter activity grants is available through end of the calendar year to support Chapter and/or National Initiative Projects. Grants of up to $1,500 are available for sustainable GHHS chapter activities, programs, research, and educational projects that increase humanism in medical learning environments and decrease burnout in trainees and clinicians. Mentoring projects are particularly encouraged. 

Please note that GHHS does not provide support for honoraria, speaker’s fees, or monetary donations to charities.
Voices in Humanism: Art in action during the dual pandemics

The Resident Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society at Ohio State formed a collaboration with the OSU Medical Heritage Center (MHC) to collect and preserve the arts created during this difficult time. They asked our students, residents, faculty, staff and alumni to submit their work and encouraged writing, photography, painting and other visual and performing arts. With these works, they created the Voices in Humanism Collection at the MHC and are now beginning to share this work with their humanism family. Special thanks to Kristin Rodgers, Collections Curator at the MHC and to the GHHS Resident Chapter president, Kejal Shah, MD.

This project was recently shared as part of our Gold Human InSight Webinar series. Linda C. Stone, MD, Special Assistant to the Dean for Humanism and Professionalism, OSU College of Medicine, presented the project during the 4th annual Voices in Humanism program. In the lecture, Dr. Stone provided an overview of the program, and members of the OSU community shared samples of their art, including poetry, photography, vocal music, film, and more. The webinar closed with a performance by Grammy-nominated artist and Broadway actress Maureen McGovern.

If you missed the webinar, you can view it HERE.
Artwork and photography by Sara Colombo and Teena D’Cruz, MD as part of the Voices in Humanism Collection
GHHS students and alumni at USF Morsani find resiliency in artistic expression
The University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine Barness-Behnke Chapter of GHHS hosted a Kintsugi Workshop and an alumni-resident virtual Q&A panel on building resilience and wellness in Residency in recognition of National Physician Suicide Awareness Day and National Suicide Awareness Week this past September.
 
The Kintsugi workshop demonstrates an artistic way of acknowledging and embracing the imperfect. Participants were provided ceramic squares and instructed to break them up with a hammer. The broken pieces were then glued together with adhesive and gold paint. The gold paint symbolized the acceptance of unfortunate or unplanned life events. Students also participated in a reflection of challenging times during medical training thus far and learned from USF alumni, now resident physicians located all over the nation, during a Q&A panel as the residents shared their experiences and struggles in residency.

Resident physician and GHHS member Dr. Liz Beaty imparted these words of wisdom to the students: "Do not study to pass the test. Study to be the person who stands between the patient and death."
Sprouts of hope are planted at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine - Virginia Campus
GHHS members at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine's Virginia Campus (VCOM-VA) recently held an event called "Sprouts of Hope for Our Seniors" to bring joy to seniors who may be feeling down due to limited visitation during the pandemic. Students repotted flowering plants into permanent pots and wrote uplifting notes to seniors. The pots and cards were then delivered to a local retirement community in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Marco Cunicelli, Class of 2021, said, “This event was a huge success for the VCOM-VA Chapter of the GHHS. Not only did we have a great turn out with over 20 staff and students volunteering their time and green thumbs, but were able to make enough succulent pots and cards for 50 people. A few students remarked that the purpose of this event was to boost the spirits of the seniors who would receive these gifts, but they couldn’t help but feel that it was improving their moods just by volunteering. When I went to deliver your gift to the nursing home, the staff members were so appreciative as the residents were not allowed out of their rooms currently due to COVID. Staff commented that this was such a great way to boost their spirits. We hope to make this a yearly partnership between GHHS at VCOM and the Warm Hearth Retirement community. We hope to do this on a larger scale next year and would love to have other chapters participate.”
GHHS Member Dr. Vivek Murthy to be honored with Vilcek-Gold Award, followed by fireside chat with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare, created jointly by the Gold Foundation and the Vilcek Foundation, is awarded to each year's honoree at the AAMC Annual Meeting. This year, the 2020 Vilcek-Gold Award will be presented to Dr. Vivek Murthy, the 19th U.S. Surgeon General, author of Together, and member of GHHS. He will give brief remarks and then join in a virtual fireside chat with fellow GHHS member Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the 2019 Vilcek-Gold Award recipient who helped bring national attention to the Flint water crisis. Mark your calendar for this session: 1-2 p.m. ET on November 17!

Other notable speakers at the 2020 AAMC Annual Meeting, November 16-18, will be NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, journalist Ann Curry, author and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Registration for students/residents is $75. Regular conference registration is $350.
Call for your video story: Share a moment of human connection in healthcare

The Gold Foundation is collecting stories of humanism in healthcare in 2020, short, 1-2 minutes told in a video – simply you speaking to your video and sharing a story of the power of the human connection. It could be about COVID or about inclusion/anti-racism, but it doesn’t need to be. Any moving story that helps other people understand more vividly why humanism in healthcare deeply matters would be appreciated. Thank you for helping spread our shared mission. Learn more and upload your video here.
Dear Chapter Advisors and Administrators,

The GHHS national staff would like to provide you with a list of GHHS members who have matched to hospital systems in your area. In order to do this, we need each advisor or GHHS administrative team to forward a list of GHHS member matches to our team. If you have not already done so, please send your GHHS member matches to Stacy-Ann Morris, Program Coordinator, at smorris@gold-foundation.org.
Share your activities and photos
If you would like to highlight your chapter's activities on our website and social media, please send a blurb and clear images to Mary Grace Schwalbe.
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