Ways to discuss, discover and disseminate

Ways to Discuss, Discover & Disseminate

If you feel out of your depth, could use suggestions for material, or would like to seek out a partner, here are some places to ask for help or engage in discussion:

• Health Humanities: A list serve sponsored by the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University

• Dr-Ed: A list-serv for medical educators

• MedHum Chat on X, formerly known as Twitter: A website and twice-monthly live chat about medical humanities

• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) list-serv: A list-serv for members of ASBH

If you would like to find or share creative work, reflections or case studies on medical humanities, here are some websites where you can discover and disseminate them:

• AMA Journal of Ethics: An editorially-independent, monthly, peer-reviewed journal that often features health humanities articles, visuals and multimedia.

• Creative Expressions During Times of Uncertainty: Website for the FRAHME Initiative of AAMC that publishes poems or 55-word stories about clinician experiences of uncertainty during 2020

• MedEdPORTAL: The AAMC's peer-reviewed journal of teaching and learning resources that publishes lessons about arts and humanities in medical education

• Academic Medicine: A peer-reviewed journal of the AAMC that publishes several humanities columns including Teaching and Learning Moments and Medicine and the ArtsA peer-reviewed journal of the AAMC that publishes several humanities columns including Teaching and Learning Moments and Medicine and the Arts

• Art of the JAMA Network: A collection of essays and reviews about movies, literature, art, and theatre relevant to clinical medicine

• Doctors Who Create: A website where medical students and physicians can find or submit their creative work of all kinds

• Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest: An annual reflective writing contest for medical and nursing students sponsored by The Arnold P. Gold Foundation

• Journal of Medical Humanities: A peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research on medical humanities, cultural studies and pedagogy in medicine and medical education

• Medical Humanities: A BMJ journal that publishes scholarly and critical articles on the history and culture of medicine as well as bioethics

• Places to publish medical narratives: A list of open-access and subscription journals that accept reflective writing about experiences in medical care

• Pulse -- Voices from the Heart of Medicine: A website that publishes personal experiences of illness and healing

• Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An international forum on teaching and learning in the health professions and health education

• William Carlos Williams Medical Student Poetry Competition: An annual competition sponsored by Northeast Ohio Medical School open to students attending allopathic or osteopathic schools of medicine in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada