Medical Humanities Lab: Home

The mission of the Medical Humanities Lab at UMass Medical School is to integrate the arts and humanities into medical education and healthcare through student, faculty, and staff collaborations fostering humanism in medicine.

Compiled by Megan Hansen and Bronwyn Wada-Gill, 2020 Hindsight is a collection of photos, essays, poetry, and recordings from the UMMS community reflecting on the year 2020. This past year has been more than any of us bargained for. We have been shaken by a pandemic, racial violence and injustice, a tumultuous election, and adjustments to new professional demands. This past year has also brought so many joys, from engagements to new friendships to moments of clarity. Explore these moments shared by UMMS community members at https://2020hindsightproje.wixsite.com/umms/about

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 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 is the Capstone project of Divya Bhatia ('21) and Qiuwei Yang ('22), with Dr. Hugh Silk advising. 

Podcasts will be 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 

Final episode of season 1 is now available! View the episode archive and transcripts in eScholarship@UMMS

The Interstitium is a multimedia, online home for the University of Massachusetts 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 UMMS 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!

Hi, I'm Rose. Visit the The Human Side (Of Medicine), where people always come first.

I am a medical student with a deep and burning love for human beings, here to challenge the notion that becoming a doctor is dehumanizing.

This website/podcast has two aims 1) to focus on what really matters within a life in medicine 2) to profile the extraordinary people who make up the world of medicine in a series called Humans of Medicine.

The Human Side (of Medicine) focuses on the diverse range of stories and people that make up medicine. And on the issues in medicine that are not always comfortable to discuss but are absolutely necessary for dismantling injustice within our field and getting to the heart of the matter. I want to inspire people from all walks of life to consider the health professions, and the best way I know how to do this is to lead by example.

Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Google Play.

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