The mission of the Medical Humanities Lab at UMass Chan Medical School is to integrate the arts and humanities into medical education and healthcare through student, faculty, and staff collaborations fostering humanism in medicine.
Medical Grand Rounds
October 13, 2022
Language as Medicine: "Finding the Right Words for the Right Conversations About Living and Dying"
By Sunita Puri, MD
Recording available to UMass Chan students, faculty, and staff
Worcester District Medical Society
16th Annual Louis A. Cottle Event
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
"Stories, Art, Music, and Photographs- Reducing Burnout and Improving Patient Care Through the Medical Humanities"
By Hugh Silk, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Med Moth
A podcast created by Divya Bhatia and Qiuwei Yang
A blog edited by Marya Pulaski
Adapted from The Moth storytelling radio show and podcast, Med Moth was established by medical students at UMass Chan in 2016 to provide a forum for those in the medical community to share reflections on their experiences in medicine, in an effort to address the pressing issues of burnout. The goal of Med Moth is to promote humanism in medicine through storytelling by all members of the greater UMass Chan medical community. This provides the opportunity for individuals to not only reflect, but also learn from the diverse perspectives and experiences of their peers. Past storytellers have ranged from the Chief of Pediatric Surgery to registered nurses to medical students.
Thank you for all who were able to attend the Med Moth on March 20, 2024 at 6:30 pm in the ASC Multipurpose Room and on Zoom!
Murmurs: Stories from our Journey in Medicine is a narrative medicine podcast that explores how health providers and trainees think about their experiences in medicine, from how they relate to their patients to what makes medical professionals tick. Each episode features a member of the UMass Chan Medical School community to discuss a poem or essay they have written about an impactful moment in their medical education or career and takes the listener through the inspiration, writing process and interview with the author. This storytelling podcast was the Capstone project of Divya Bhatia ('21) and Qiuwei Yang ('22), with Dr. Hugh Silk advising.
Podcasts were released weekly and are available to subscribe now on Apple iTunes Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, and other streaming platforms! Through these podcasts, we hope to build community, promote reflection and increase awareness of issues of medical education and health inequality. Reach us at murmursumassmed@gmail.com or through our Anchor homepage: https://anchor.fm/murmurs-podcast
Season 2 is now available! View the episode archive and transcripts in eScholarship@UMassChan
The Interstitium is a multimedia, online home for the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School community members to reflect on their experiences. The site was developed as a space for pausing and processing amidst the grind of long study days or buzz of a busy clinic, with the hope of supporting, nourishing, and connecting the UMass Chan community. Submit your insights, questions, experiences, and comments to TheInterstitiumUMassMed@gmail.com.
Check out their most recent post, "What we learned in the pandemic", by Dr. Michael Hirsh!
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