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

"The Patient"

"When we choose not to use someone’s name, we are choosing to reduce them," writes Katie A. Thure. Through the lens of her mother's passing, the author shares why using another person's name is one of the simplest ways to keep humanity and respect central in healthcare.

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The Arts and Humanities in Health Professions Education

This issue of International Review of Psychiatry focuses on the various ways that arts, humanities, and health professions education intersect, with content including research, reviews, commentaries, case reports, and personal reflections.

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Narrative medicine pinpoints loss of autonomy and stigma in Parkinson’s disease

By comparing a first-person narrative and drawing from a patient with Parkinson’s disease with several creative works — including Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections and Oliver Sacks' nonfiction book Awakenings — Barend W. Florijn and colleagues distilled metaphors and themes that could help clinicians in their consultations with patients.

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Poetry About Illness

April is National Poetry Month, established by the Academy of American Poets to celebrate poetry's important place in our culture and lives. Their website's curated collections include a number of works that bring poetry's unique perspective to the experience of illness, including Jane Kenyon's "Having it Out with Melancholy" and Kimiko Hahn's "Things That Are Changed—March, 2020."

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Featured Annotation: The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

In this annotation on the NYU Langone LitMed Database, Guy Glass writes, "This is not a conventional chronological autobiography but rather essays that provide different approaches to the author’s experience of mental illness.... It should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the experience of having an illness."

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Gold Foundation Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup

The latest Research Roundup highlights recent articles about physician empathy and chronic pain outcomes, critical care nurses’ moral resilience and traumatic stress after COVID-19, prolonged emotional impacts after medical errors, and more.

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The 2024 Gold Humanism Summit Art Gallery showcases artwork that reflects experiences, creativity, and insights from clinicians, trainees, patients, caregivers, and members of the healthcare community. Enjoy this collection of visual art, video, performance, song, poetry, narrative writing, pottery, and more.

Quick Links:

• Fiction has a special power to give us insight into our flaws
• The Unbearable Vagueness of Medical ‘Professionalism’
• Strange and Tender Fracture: Flash Illness Writing, Chronic Pain, and Alternatives to "Resilience"
• Fostering Wonder Through the Arts and Humanities: Using Visual Thinking Strategies in Medical Education
• When Play Reveals the Ache: Introducing Co-constructive Patient Simulation for Narrative Practitioners in Medical Education

• Harvard Macy Institute's Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship, application deadline 4/29/24
• Pediatrics 2024 Essay Competition: “Launch into Health Literacy” – open to trainees, deadline 4/29/24
• AACN-Gold Interprofessional Humanism in Healthcare Award, nominations due 5/1/24
• Bellevue Literary Review: "Body Politic" call for story pitches, deadline 5/31/24
• Storozynski Writing Fellowship, Health, Humanities, & Society program at the University of Notre Dame, IN, application deadline 6/3/24
• 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
• Special issue of Analetica Hermeneutica: Rethinking patient-centered care: Exploring the interpretive and relational nature of clinical practice, deadline 1/1/25

May 1

Narrative Medicine Rounds: "The Country of the Blind," a conversation with Andrew Leland moderated by Allison Coffelt (online)

May 4

Writing Medicine with Dr. Julia Nordgren (online)

May 9

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

Jun. 6

2024 HumanisEM Conference - "A Nexus for Equity: Exploring the foundational role of the Health Humanities in addressing inequities in health and catalyzing connection across differences" (online)

Jun. 10

Gold Foundation Annual Gala (New York, NY)

Jul. 8-9

Compassion in Medical Education (C-MEd) Forum (San Diego, CA)

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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