Commentary by Steve Langan, author of a collection of poems, Freezing (New Issues Press, 2001) and a chapbook, Notes on Exile and Other Poems (Backwaters, 2005); executive director of ALS …
Category: Teaching
Borderlands: A Theme and Syllabus for Medical Humanities Teaching
Now that I’m semi-retired, an elective course that I developed and taught for fourth-year medical students is retiring with me. I’m writing about it here, in the hope that other medical humanities educators might wish to adapt it for their teaching — it was very well received by participating students and, I think, served a useful function.
Narrative Genetics: Following the Trail of Spit
Commentary by Marsha Hurst, Ph.D., Narrative Medicine Program,; faculty member and Research Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University; co-editor with Sayantani DasGupta of …
My Story, Your Attention, Our Connection
Commentary by Deirdre Neilen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics & Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY, and editor, The Healing Muse We are finalizing our eighth issue of …
Trekking And The Medical Humanities
How can trekking be related to the humanities? On first glance these two appear very different.
Teaching Medical Listening Through Oral History
The oral history exercise I have designed for my health advocacy graduate students is a way for them to see ‘narrative in motion’ – not only applying the theoretical ideas we discuss in class, but using some of the autobiographical texts we read to deepen their understanding of their oral history interviews.
Teaching Film: A Perspective From Narrative Medicine
Maybe it’s because classrooms are now routinely video-equipped, or because, as an attention-challenged culture, most of us have come to expect power point or other visual “enhancements” in the lecture hall, or because movies can be so efficient in conveying an idea, or maybe it’s simply because we love them so very much, that movies are being used more and more commonly in medical and nursing schools…
Children of a Lesser God at Oxford
In the last few years in the UK there has been an increasing awareness of the value of the arts as a part of the formation of a rounded doctor. In some ways this represents a return to traditional values.
Medical Humanities: Sowing the Seeds in the Himalayan Country of Nepal
Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal Nepal, a country in the lap of the Himalayas is still predominantly agricultural. The …