Medical Humanities Summer Institute
This workshop, hosted by Kings College London in June 2016, provided an opportunity for robust conversation about issues in medical humanities research and in the development of degree programs (graduate and undergraduate).
Recent Research
‘Beckett on the Wards’: medical humanities pedagogy and ‘compassionate care’
Heron, J, Barry, E, Duncan, F, Hawkins, E, Playdon, Z 2015-11-05. Medical Humanities doi: 10.1136/medhum-2015-010772 PMID: 26543155
Improved predictive ability of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for diagnosing dementia in a community-based study
Hsu, J, Fan, Y, Huang, Y, Wang, J, Chen, W, Chiu, H, Bai, C 2015. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy 7(1):69. doi: 10.1186/s13195-015-0156-8 PMID: 26549573
The Gene Hackers
Specter, M November 16, 2015. The New Yorker.
Harvard joins growing trend of arts education in med schools - The Boston Globe
02, M B S N BostonGlobe.com.
Maintaining compassion and preventing compassion fatigue: a practical guide
Baverstock, A C, Finlay, F O 2015-10-28. Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2015-308582 PMID: 26510446
Selected Aspects of Mental Health of Elderly Patients with Chronic Back Pain Treated in Primary Care Centers
Cabak, A, Dąbrowska-Zimakowska, A, Tomaszewski, P, Łyp, M, Kaczor, R, Tomaszewski, W, Fijałkowska, B, Kotela, I 2015. Medical Science Monitor: International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research 21 PMID: 26522877
“I wanted to communicate my feelings freely”: a descriptive study of creative responses to enhance reflection in palliative medicine education
McBain, L, Donnelly, S, Hilder, J, O’Leary, C, McKinlay, E 2015-10-23. BMC Medical Education 15(1):180. doi: 10.1186/s12909-015-0465-4
Mapping the Ethics of Translational Genomics: Situating Return of Results and Navigating the Research-Clinical Divide
Wolf, S M, Burke, W, Koenig, B A Sep 2015. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics: A Journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics 43(3):486-501. doi: 10.1111/jlme.12291 PMID: 26479558
Assessing opinions in community leadership networks to address health inequalities: a case study from Project IMPACT
McCauley, M P, Ramanadhan, S, Viswanath, K 2015-10-14. Health Education Research doi: 10.1093/her/cyv049 PMID: 26471919
Physicians' attitudes about artificial feeding in older patients with severe cognitive impairment in Japan: a qualitative study
Aita, K, Takahashi, M, Miyata, H, Kai, I, Finucane, T E 2007. BMC Geriatrics 7(1):22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-7-22
Announcements
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2017 Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium
Deadline extended to Friday, July 14, 2017. See details here.
Herschel Garfein in conversation
Garfein will be talking about his work as librettist on "Alzheimer's Stories” (with the composer Robert S. Cohen) to the Interprofessional Seminar on Aging. It’s a choral work about Alzheimer’s patients, based on personal stories posted on the website of the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, which commissioned the work.
April 18, 2017 from 5:30-7 pm
Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168th Street
11th Floor conference room-(take the elevator on the left 1 floor up and conference room is on the right)
Screening and Talk: Extremis
An Oscar-nominated documentary by Dan Krauss exploring end-of-life decision-making in the ICU
WEDNESDAY, April 5th, 2017 | 5-7 pm
LOCATION: FACULTY CLUB
630 W. 168th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY
Malawi Medical Humanities Network
Inaugural Conference
University of Malawi, Aug. 25-27, 2017
Proposals due April 21
Narrative Medicine Workshop 2017
Race | Violence | Justice: The Need for Narrative
Columbia University
April 7-9, 2017
Garret FitzGerald, “Precision Medicine, Translational Research and Therapeutics”
Monday, December 5, 2016
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center
Second Floor
104 Haven Avenue
New York, NY 10032
Symposium: Racism and Public Health
Hosted by Columbia's Science, Technology, and Society Discussion Series .
CFP: Medicine and Mystery
The Victorian Popular Fiction Association just released a CFP for their June 2017 conference, Medicine and Mystery: The Dark Side of Fiction in Victorian Science .
Upcoming talk for those in the NYC area…
DU Peng, Renmin University of China
“Population Aging and Elderly Care in China and East Asia.”
November 18th, 12p
ARB Room 440, 722 W. 168th Street
Details available at: aging.columbia.edu
CHCI MedHum
2017 Summer Institute
Call for Proposals Announced
Click this link for more details
Proposals due 10/15/16
Job: Rutgers University Postdoctoral Associate (2 positions)
Applications due by January 9, 2017
Panel: Aging: Things That Matter
September 20, 2016
NYU (433 First Avenue, 2nd Floor)
2016 Penn State Medical Humanities Scholars Colloquium
August 28-September 3, 2016
Penn State College of Medicine
Applications due by June 1, 2016. Email documents to [email protected]
Summer Course “Medical Humanities - Italian Perspectives”
September 11-16, 2016
Fondazione Lanza, via Dante, 55 - Padova (Italy)
Applications due by July 20, 2016. Payment due by August 10, 2016
September 15-17, 2016
University of Seville, Spain
Proposals are due by March 15, 2016
October 6-9, 2016
Washington, D.C.
Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill
Proposals are due by March 4, 2016
2016 a2ru National Conference: ArtsRx: Creative Venture, Wellbeing and the New Humanities
November 3-5, 2016
University of Colorado, Denver
Proposals are due by May 20, 2016
January 5-8, 2017
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Proposals for Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care Session are due by March 15, 2016. Email 300 word abstracts and one page CV to [email protected]
CFP