As an exercise in reflection and storytelling, the project’s curators invite you to write a letter to your future self and submit it to the archive, to be publicized on the site (anonymously upon request) in the aftermath of the pandemic.
The Nocturnists is looking for people who are interested in keeping an “audio diary” about their experience working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re not looking for perfect, polished stories. We just want to understand your raw experience. We wouldn’t be surprised
The The Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest asks medical and nursing students to engage in a reflective writing exercise that illustrates an experience where they or a team member worked to ensure that humanism was at the core of care. Winners
Our newest editor, Richard Wu, will be compiling opportunities and events that might interest the Doctors Who Create community. Here are some interesting opportunities and deadlines coming up – keep checking our site for more! Want to submit your opportunity to be featured? Email doctorswhocreate@gmail.com Opportunities: The Robert H. Moser Essay Contest
The Center for Healthcare Narratives, housed within the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety (MIQS), has recently launched Please See Me, a new online literary journal. The journal features health- and healthcare-related stories in the form of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and digital media. Publishing work written by patients, family members,
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host its 13th annual 3-day Examined Life Conference from October 24-26, 2019. The conference will focus on the links between medicine and the arts. Presentation registration ends on April 30, 2019, and more information
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
The 2019 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine, which is taking place May 17 at the Centre for Life in Newcastle in the UK), is accepting abstracts for poster presentations. The submission deadline is April 15, 2019 at 12:00 midnight GMT, and there is more information on their website here: http://www.hippocrates-poetry.org/poetry-and-medicine-events-2/10th-hippocrates-conference/index.html
The Aseemkala Initiative uses traditional dance to perform stories of women in medicine. Using choreography, interviews, and research, we use our diverse styles to tell our diverse experiences as patients and providers. We are looking for choreographers and researchers to join the team! Consider applying here: https://aseemkala.org/opportunities/ Applications
Over the past year and a half, I have been compiling an anthology of reflections from medical students, junior doctors and residents from around the world about their experiences in medicine. The anthology, provisionally called Process: Reflections from the Path to Doctor, is now under contract with University Press
I’m working on a book project that will focus on medical trainees’ journeys through medicine, especially the non-academic, emotional aspects of their journeys. The dream is for the book to include submissions from medical students and residents all over the world and to be a
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
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
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,
Now in its 8th year, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 8000 entries from over 60 countries. All awards are for a single unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines of verse on a medical theme. The 2017 Hippocrates Awards are being organized in
Medstro and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) are hosting an open forum until December 17th to discuss narrative medicine with experts in the field. The forum is moderated by Dr. Abraar Karan, an MPH candidate at Harvard, and features answers from some leading
Today, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) announced that it is starting a new Arts and Medicine section. Associate Editor Roxanne Young wrote in the editorial introducing the new section: “In 2016, we take the transformation further, beyond the visual and fine arts
Medstro, the social network for physicians, is running three online challenges that offer the opportunity to win up to $57,000 in prizes and to present your product in front of live audiences of up to 3000 people. Partners Connected Health is still accepting submissions to the
The Intima publishes articles from a variety of perspectives exploring Narrative Medicine and its applications in healthcare and healing. Narrative Medicine is interdisciplinary, and we encourage entries that engage any of the following: medicine in literature and/or poetry biomedical ethics history of medicine and/or science
The Nocturnists started as a scrappy, open-mic storytelling event for physicians, and has now blossomed into a full-fledged bicoastal movement. To learn more about us, check out our website and/or read about us in the SF Chronicle. Attached are flyers for our upcoming events in SF and