Creative Events To Tune Into Remotely Next Week
Here’s a round-up of some online events you can attend next week, at the intersection of creativity and medicine!
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Season 2 of the Nocturnists, and a Chance to Submit Your Story
The Nocturnists, a medical storytelling podcast, is back for a second season. Tune in to hear stories from the medical school, the emergency room, a prison hospice, an operating room in Vietnam, and the great plains of Montana. The Nocturnists is excited to announce its
Episode 11: Undocumented But Not Forgotten
Presenting the first episode of a collaboration between Doctors Who Create and Equal Treatment, a medical educational platform that brings awareness to health care issues involving race, immigration, and underserved populations. In this episode, we interview Dr. Oanh Nguyen at UCSF about the implications of
Episode 10: Cannabis, Love, and Other Drugs
In this DWC podcast, we hear from psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, musician, and drug legalization advocate Dr. Julie Holland. She takes us through the whirlwind that is writing her fourth book, talks about her experience being a physician in the media, and tells us the whole truth
Episode 9: Medicine the Musical
Have you ever wondered what a musical about medical school would be like? In today’s episode, we give you a peek into Medicine the Musical and a behind the scenes discussion with Dr. Michael Ehrenreich, the creative extraordinaire who wrote and directed this musical. In
Episode 8: The Chief of Wellness
Today, we sit down to talk to Dr. Benoit Dubé, the Chief Wellness Officer of the University of Pennsylvania. Find out what it means to be a chief wellness officer of, well.. anything, and how much of Dr. Dubé’s path to psychiatry had to do
Episode 7: The Opioid Race
What does race have to do with the way we treat opioid addiction in the U.S.? What can we do to understand this issue and address it creatively? Listen as we tackle these complex issues this week and talk about the value of incorporating different
Episode 6: Calling the Shots
This week we talk to Dr. Paul Offit, co-creator of the rotavirus vaccine. His training in pediatrics and infectious diseases, as well as his childhood experience in a polio ward, led him to become a champion for children. In addition to his prolific writing (he’s
Episode 5: All’s Well that Ends Well
This week we talk to Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, who is a physician, philanthropist, activist, and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. She is the founder of the End Well foundation, a non-profit focusing in issues of end-of-life care and palliative care. Listen as we
Episode 4: Doctors who create…podcasts
How do you create a medical podcast? In this meta episode of Doctors Who Create, we speak with the team at CORE IM about how their podcast came to be. Dr. Shreya Trivedi, Dr. Marty Fried, Dr. Steve Liu, and Dr. John Hwang speak candidly
Episode 3: Creativity in the curriculum
“What Are You Doing Creatively These Days?” That is the very question that Dr. Niamh Kelly, associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia, asks in her article published in the journal Academic Medicine. In this episode,
Episode 2: Learning to save lives, online
What if you could use an online game to teach residents how to properly deal with medical emergencies, by simulating the real life-or-death decisions they must make in a fast-paced environment? Darlina Liu talks to Dr. Lisa Shieh, professor of medicine at Stanford and creator
Episode 1: A space of our own
How do you design a space for medical students and trainees to work on creative projects? Dr. Bon Ku, emergency medicine physician and director of JeffDESIGN (a program that teaches medical students at Jefferson in Philadelphia to apply design thinking to solve problems in
Episode 0: Why do we need creativity in medicine?
Why do we need creativity in medicine? Hosts and current third-year medical students Katie Magoon, Chu Onyebeke and Vidya Viswanathan introduce the point of this podcast, and discuss why they believe creativity in medicine is important. Thanks to Benjamin Silva for producing and editing this
Healthcare Design Bootcamp, June 7-8
Apply here for a 2-day program at Jefferson University that will provide you with an immersive experience in how to apply design thinking in a health care context. You will learn and be exposed to design skills that are relevant in the education of health care
Netter’s Symposium
Chen Zhou is a current third year medical student at Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Chen has been painting since the age of four. He struggled with reconciling his love for the arts with his decision to pursue medicine as a career. He always felt like
Visual Design in Medicine: A Double-Header Workshop
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AMWA “Artist in Residence” Award
The Artist in Residence Award was started in 2015 by Studio AMWA to promote women members in the arts. The role of the artist in residence is to create an artistic project that is pertinent to AMWA and women in medicine. This art will then
Call for Proposals: 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium at Harvard Medical School on 6th May 2017
Proposals for abstracts and oral presentation are now being accepted for 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium, to be convened at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA on 6th May 2017. Held in conjunction with the international Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, one of the highest value prizes for
White Coat Project – Studio AMWA
White coats have been symbols of the honor, dignity, and responsibility in the field of medicine. The white coats are conferred upon first year medical students as an induction to their own journeys towards becoming compassionate healers. The coats evolve with the training, from short,