ArtBeat’s Synesthesia is holding its annual art show on April 8th 2019 (9:00AM – 5:00PM) in the MSB Stone Lobby.
Submit any original artworks (paintings, photos, poetry, performance art? etc) by February 17th 2019!
Workshops to be announced.
LINK FOR SUBMISSIONS: https://goo.gl/
Join us for a screening of Bedside Manner (2016), a short film that explores the important role of performance in physician-patient encounters through the lens of standardized patient simulations. The screening will be accompanied by a discussion with the visiting filmmaker, Corinne Botz, and collaborator Dr. Alice Flaherty, who is a neurologist at Harvard.
RSVP here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P3KHG7K
Key learning themes:
Communication, e.g., empathy, professionalism
Performance and health outcomes, e.g., help-seeking behaviours, physician wellness
Person-centred approaches to care
Synopsis:
In the 18-minute film Bedside Manner (2016, Winner, Grand Jury Prize for Best Short at the DOC NYC Festival, Oscar-qualifying), director Corinne Botz explores doctor-patient encounters through the lens of standardized patient simulations. It broadens the traditional medical gaze to include doctors as well as patients. It creates an uncanny space in which viewers and participants suspend disbelief and rehearse for trauma.
The film begins with the repeated simulation of a case of delirium that highlights the wavering boundary between reality and art in medicine. Standardized patients and students connect in an ensemble performance of acting sick and playing doctor, yet the encounters are also real. The film’s protagonist, the neurologist Alice Flaherty, plays herself as a doctor, standardized patient, and real patient, and raises questions about the importance of acting well.
Presenters:
Corinne Botz is a Brooklyn-based photographic artist, writer and filmmaker, whose work has been shown internationally. She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her best known book, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, first brought Frances Glessner Lee’s dioramas of violent death to the attention of the art world. The dioramas will be shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts this winter.
Alice Flaherty trained as a neurologist and now has a joint appointment in psychiatry. She has written three award-winning books, all of which have been translated into several languages. Two have been multiply dramatized. Her book The Midnight Disease explores the neurology of creativity. Flaherty is writing a book about the role of acting in both the art of medicine and the under-studied art of being a patient. In the course of her research she has appeared in over 25 television productions, and consulted on two Hollywood doctor show pilots.
Date: Monday, March 11, 6pm
Location: Mount Sinai Hospital (600 University Ave) – 18th floor auditorium
Time: 6:30-8pm
Dear Colleagues,
Post MD Education continues to offer the Medical Humanities Education Matching Funding Grant in the amount of $5,000 per project proposal, distributed on a semi-annual basis. The first (inaugural) call went out in January 2017 and grants were awarded in June 2017, December 2017, June 2018 and December 2018.
I am writing to announce the call for the spring 2019 submissions. The submission deadline is March 29, 2019 with grants awarded to the successful applicants in June.
The integration of humanities in medical education curricula has the potential to improve observation skills, self-reflection, and enhance learner competencies in the CanMEDS roles. Projects and proposals may reflect a variety of curricular designs which identify how medical humanities will be integrated into curricula and further enhance CanMEDS competencies.
Each proposal will require a matching funding commitment from the submitting department/division, i.e., if the project budget is $4,500 – a letter from the department chair committing to $2,250 is required. Funding will be provided for a one year period, and applicants must agree to submit a project report at end of the period.
Post MD Education will transfer the awarded funds to the successful applicant’s Academic Department in the Faculty of Medicine. Business Managers will provide Financial Information Services (FIS) account numbers to facilitate this transfer within 4 weeks of application approval or the funding offer will be withdrawn. The Academic Department will be responsible for the disbursement of funds to the successful applicant.
Attached is further background on the purpose of the grant as well as a template for the application. Please distribute widely.
We look forward to receiving applications for the Medical Humanities Education Grant by March 29, 2019.
Please submit your package by email to Arlene McKinley at: arlene.mckinley@utoronto.ca
Sincerely,
SALVATORE M. SPADAFORA MD, FRCPC, MHPE
Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Vice Dean, Post MD Education – Postgraduate Medical Education & Continuing Professional Development
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Dear Readers,
Ars Medica has just published its latest issue at
http://ars-medica.ca/index.
Contents here and then visit our website to review articles and items of
interest.
Thank you for your the continuing interest in Ars Medica’s work.
Best regards,
Marilyn
Marilyn Bittman
Managing Editor
Ars Medica
Vol 13, No 2 (2018)
Table of Contents
http://ars-medica.ca/index.
Editorial
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Editorial
*Allison Crawford
Feature Pieces
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How to Befriend a Cadaver
*Maggie Hulbert
Doctors as Patients: An Interpretative Study of Two Literary Narratives
*Jonatan Wistrand
Prose
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A Disease of Dignity
*James K.A. Stevens
The Perfume of the Dying
*Kim O’Connell
Philip Larkin’s Myxomatosis and the Problem of Empathy
*Michael D. Shulman
Writing His Own Ending
*Rebecca MacDonell-Yilmaz
Mortality Knocks
*Pamela Walker
Poetry
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For the Old Man on His Death Bed
*Anne Rose
Recipe: Refractory Status Migrainosus
*Jennifer R. Wolkin
Inheritance
*Judith O’Connell Hoyer
Semmelweis to Szent Rókus
*Daniel Galef
The Professor
*Cheryl Hindrichs
On Grieving
*Simon Perchik
The Lunger in the Attic/The Dead Abandoned at Crest Sanatorium, 1935
*Lisa Alexander Baron
Of Unknown Origin
*Ali M Tahvildari
Transplanted / At the American Museum of Visionary Art: The Gateway
*Marjorie Maddox
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Dear U of T Medicine learners and faculty members,
Annie Yu and Sarah Ge, from the Class of 2T2, are launching Palette Magazine as U of T Medicine’s first student Arts & Culture print magazine – an initiative they’ve been working on to incorporate the arts and humanities into medicine. Featuring works across visual arts, creative writing, performance arts and lifestyle design, Palette Magazine is envisioned to be a platform that celebrates creative authenticity and unites diverse interests within our medical community.
Palette Magazine is excited to be calling for submissions for their very first issue, which will be printed and distributed in the spring, to coincide with the Synesthesia art show. The deadline is February 15th, 2019 at 11:59pm. Submissions can be emailed to palette.utoronto@gmail.com. All submissions will be entered into a draw for 3 Starbucks gift card ($15 each)!
If you are interested in the arts and would you like to see your drawings, creative writing, photography, descriptions of your performances or any element of your student life featured in a print magazine, please see below for submission guidelines and sample layouts. All submitted works are truly appreciated!
Submission guidelines: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nlNWS-QmCbXIKonSkSWJOl0hoG_l6hE856tAArXgYYY/edit?usp=sharing
Sample layouts: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IAoTlHB6vmhalbTuydMjm_xIF9Ci6n94
This 3-day faculty development program offers teaching and assessment approaches well suited to addressing the social and relational aspects of care.
We will explore:
(1) Different paradigms for health professions education;
(2) Innovative ideas for teaching and assessing in a transformative way; and,
(3) Practical strategies for systems change in health professions education.
We invite health professions teachers/educators, clinicians, administrators, leaders, scholars, and others to join us.
Registration is open. Spaces are limited. Fee is $1000CDN/person including materials and most meals.
Location: Women’s College Hospital, 76 Grenville St, Toronto, ON M5S 1B2
Visit http://cfd.utoronto.ca/sei or email FriesenF@smh.ca for more information.
The Centre for Faculty Development (CFD), the University of Toronto Postgraduate Medical Education and Continuous Professional Development, and Program in Health, Arts and Humanities (HAH) are excited to announce the launch of Writing for Healthcare Practitioners: Creation, Reflection, and Practice with Damian Tarnopolsky!
For more information and to register, please visit: https://cfd.utoronto.ca/fostering/. Registration closes on March 20, 2019.
This program aims to meet the needs of healthcare practitioners seeking to explore creative and reflective writing, as well as those looking to inform their professional practice with narrative approaches to health and medicine.
The course will begin by introducing the elements of writing practice and the essentials of close reading, to be applied with greater focus and depth as the workshop goes on. We will read a selection of published works relating to health and the body, including short stories, memoir, and drama, and discuss what they offer to us as models. Guest speakers will offer theoretical/practical/creative perspectives on additional genres, such as poetry and non-fiction.
Please let us know if you have any questions. We hope that you will consider joining us for this exciting learning opportunity and please share this announcement widely with your networks.
With many thanks,
Farah
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Farah Friesen, MI
Education Knowledge Broker & Program Coordinator
Centre for Faculty Development
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto at St. Michael’s Hospital
Li Ka Shing International Healthcare Education Centre
30 Bond Street, LKSKI Building, 4th Floor
Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1W8
T:416-864-6060 ext. 77416
Mindfest is returning on Thursday, January 24, 2019.
10 am – 2 pm.
Hart House, 7 Hart House Cir.
University of Toronto – St. George Campus.
Key Note Speakers:
Dr. Tony George: Cannabis Legalization and Psychiatric Disorders: Caveat “Hemp-tor”
Mr. Arif Virani, M.P.: Youth Mental Health in Marginalized Communities: Antibullying and Antistigma Initiatives.
Panel Discussions; Information Booths; Activities.
Please Visit Our Website! https://www.mindfest.ca/
All are welcome – RSVP Below
Join us for a screening of Bending the Arc (2017), a documentary about the work two physicians and a social activist did to establish Partners in Health in Haiti. The screening will be followed by a short discussion period for those interested.
RSVP (free!) here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XY552VQ
Film synopsis
30 years ago in Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, and activist Ophelia Dahl began a movement that would change global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/234590618
This event is happening on Feb 19, 2019, at 6pm, at 500 University Ave., Room 140.
Admission is free, and there will be refreshments and snacks!
RSVP here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XY552VQ
The application window is now open, and we are looking for submissions for the Mimi Divinsky Award for History and Narrative in Family Medicine, which recognizes the best submitted narrative account of experiences in family medicine. The award is named in memory of Dr Mimi Divinsky for her role as a pioneer in narrative medicine in Canada.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: The award is open to College of Family Physicians of Canada members in good standing, family medicine residents, or medical students. Stories must be 1200 words or less and may be submitted in English or French. Submissions should reflect the annual theme, which for 2019 is TEACHING.
VALUE: The Mimi Divinsky Award for History and Narrative in Family Medicine will be presented at the Awards Gala during Family Medicine Forum 2019, which takes place in Vancouver, BC, from October 30 to November 2. All submitted stories will be available publicly at www.cfpc.ca/stories. The award-winning story will also be published in Canadian Family Physician.
APPLICATION PROCESS: Applications must be submitted online by 4:00 PM (ET) on March 1, 2019.
For more information and to submit your story, please visit fafm.cfpc.ca/h-a/awards-of-recognition.
The CFPC Humanities Committee is supporting a Health Humanities Community.
WE’D WELCOME YOU!
If you are interested in being added to the listserv, please contact education@cfpc.ca
Call for Submissions:
We are pleased to announce the TENTH “White COAT, Warm ART Exhibit” which is held annually in conjunction with the Canadian Conference on Medical education (CCME). This exhibit will showcase the creative talents of medical / other health sciences faculty, residents, students, and physicians and other health professionals from across Canada. This will be a juried exhibition. Entries can include, oils, watercolours, photographs, pastels, etchings, pen and ink, etc. Limited space will also be available for the display of small sculptures.
Artistic Selection: Selection for all pieces will be based on artistic merit, and demonstrated skill in effecting a particular artistic vision in the media chosen.
YOU MUST SPECIFY in your Artist Statement WHICH CATEGORY YOU ARE SUBMITTING TO:
1) Live Exhibit: Artists selected for the live exhibit must either plan to bring their art themselves to the exhibit, or arrange to have it brought & picked up by someone else. Any Shipping arrangements (delivery AND packing for return shipping) must be arranged entirely by the artist (we don’t have the resources to arrange shipping). Any shipping (& Insurance) expenses are born by the artist.
2) Digital Exhibit: If you don’t plan to attend the exhibit, or are unable to have your art brought by a colleague, please submit to the “Digital Exhibit”.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
1) First Register with teachingmedicine.com (it’s free)
2) Click on “Art Gallery”
3) Submit your artwork to the “White Coat Warm heART 2019 Gallery”
4) You will be prompted to include a “Artist Statement” (60 words max: describe the art itself, and the role of art making in your professional life) For judging purposes please include the word “LIVE” or “DIGITAL” at the beginning of your Artist Statement.
5) If you have any problems with the submission process Email ASAP courneya@mail.ubc.ca and jwaech@yahoo.ca
Deadline for Submission is:
Sunday January 27th, 2019 by 5PM Pacific Standard Time.
Here is the Toronto arts event calendar for January 2019 prepared by med student Kimberley Lau and the ARTBEAT health humanities blog team.
