This pathway is part of the University of Florida College of Medicine educational curriculum. Students who want to focus on an area of study in addition to the clinical curriculum and their specialty choice can choose a pathway and participate in the activities of that pathway. This pathway focuses on the medical/health humanities. (The use of health rather than medical brings in the study of all health professions, public health and epidemiology, and wellness- life outside of the clinic.)
Essential, Key Texts
Narrative Medicine by This links to the COM website with information on this medical student pathway.
Materials from the College of Medicine Health Humanities Pathway
This project was advertised as an MSRP project- the deadline for MSRP funding is past, but there are still opportunities to work on it:
Navigating Vaccine Hesitancy With Patients
Faculty Mentor’s Name: Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
Email: nstoyan@ufl.edu
Phone Number: (352) 273-8406
Project Category: Literature Review
International Component or Travel: No
Research Project Description:
The Health Science Center Library is developing a project and grant proposal with the goal of assessing reasons for vaccine hesitancy (focusing on COVID-19 vaccines but not limited exclusively to these vaccines), and then addressing these reasons, and would like to include medical students in the research and interviewing. The project itself will have several phases, including interviewing healthcare providers, chaplains, public health workers- people whose work includes difficult conversations, collecting information on curricula, and other programs educating care workers on working with vaccine hesitancy, creating a research database to serve in creating an algorithm for these conversations, and developing trainings.
An MSRP for summer of 2021 would involve work through an existing, group IRB and research on the First Project Phase. Opportunities would exist for continuing work on the project as it progresses through different phases.
Annual Health Humanities Conferences
Fall Conferences
1.Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, - their annual conference may be less or more focused on science than medicine. U
2. Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, usually held mid-late September or October, Kalamazoo, MI
3. Examined Life Conference, conference usually held in September/October
Spring Conferences
1. Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS)- usually held in March, rotating location
2025 conference, Call for proposals (deadline November 8)
2. Health Humanities Consortium- usually held in March or April, rotating location
2025 conference Call for proposals (deadline October 31)
Graphic Medicine- for the chance to draw and practice graphic medicine virtually...
To respond to the cancellation of our 2020 Graphic Medicine conference in Toronto, to combat the social isolation of pandemic-related lockdowns, and to support and promote community, the Graphic Medicine International Cooperative (GMIC) launched a free weekly virtual meet-up called “Drawing Together”
We provided a Zoom link, a topic, and a group facilitator. Members of the world-wide Graphic Medicine community gathered to draw, support one another, and share. See links below to the first thirteen weekly sessions that ran until June 28. This page will serve as an ongoing archive of our sessions. Our intention is to create video posts to guide you through exercises from all the sessions.
Starting in February 2021, these gatherings are now be held twice monthly. The first will be the second Friday of the month 3pm ET (8pmGMT) and the second on the last Sunday of the month, at 1pmET (6pm GMT).
To register: email MK Czerwiec at https://comicnurse.com/ to get the link
Next will be April 25th
Mutter Museum events
The Mutter Museum is part of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia
April 20- A Celebration of Carol Orzel- Carol was diagnosed with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP) as a child and spent her life advocating for more research in search of a cure for this rare disease. When Carol passed away in 2018, she donated her skeleton to the Mütter Museum so that she could continue to educate the world about FOP. Learn more about Carol and FOP with Dr. Mona Al Mukaddam, Dr. Frederick Kaplan, and Dr. Eileen Shore during a virtual presentation on April 20, 2021.
https://13284a.blackbaudhosting.com/13284a/Carol-Orzel?mc_cid=4a148ed195&mc_eid=09733aefe7
Library Company of Philadelphia
This organization was the first library opened in the Americas, by Benjamin Franklin. They are holding regular free, virtual events- some of which have a health theme. This event- a Fireside Chat scheduled for May 27 may be of interest- Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with American society, law, and politics during the early American Republic. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance. Revolutionaries built the American government based on rational principles, but could not protect it from irrational actors that they feared could cause the body politic to grow mentally or physically ill. For more events, see https://librarycompany.org/calendar/
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