Reading The Plague Part Three – January 10 🗓January 7, 2021
The Plague Plays Reading Group resumes this Sunday. I'm looking forward to our exploration of Parts 3 & 4 of the Plague! […]
Plums in the IceboxJanuary 4, 2021
Plums in the Icebox is an ongoing creative writing workshop for health practitioners. Each month we meet via Zoom in a small group to share work, do some writing, give some feedback and -most of all- reconnect with our writing and reading. In between meetings we do more of the same via chat. […]
Postcards from the Edge: Addressing Compassion/Covid Fatigue in Note Form 🗓December 7, 2020
A Reflective Writing Session for Medical Students, Residents, Physicians and Other Health Professionals […]
NEW “AUTHOR MD” READING SERIES-FIRST ZOOM EVENT DECEMBER 3RD 🗓November 17, 2020
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences (University of Manitoba) and Temerty Faculty of Medicine (University of Toronto) present :
‘Poetry and a Medical Life’ – A Reading and Conversation with Conor Mc Donnell, MD and Bahar Orang, MD […]
ZOOM READERS THEATRE – STARTS NOVEMBER 29TH 🗓November 16, 2020
If you are looking for a place to put your thoughts about the life we are living in medicine now join me for an informal reader’s theatre, called Plague Plays. […]
New Seminar – Mixed-Media in Medicine (MMM) 🗓November 6, 2020
At the University of Toronto, Narrative Medicine and Arts-based Curricula are staples of Undergraduate Studies in Medicine and increasingly through Residency and beyond. […]
Awake at Work 🗓October 2, 2020
Writing into Presence for Medical Students, Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals. In this session, use writing to explore how simply showing up and attending to your own experience is the starting point for attending to others. […]
HeNReG 2020-21 Virtual meetings starting in OctoberSeptember 28, 2020
The Health Narratives Research Group (HeNReG) allows researchers the opportunity to take the personally relevant stories that initiated their commitment to health care and develop them into narratives with a particular point of view. […]
- Announcements for ARS MEDICA -Canada’s Leading Medical Humanities Journal
August 14, 2020
“ARS MEDICA-A JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, THE ARTS AND […]
Writing as Craft in the Time of Covid-19- Some Spots Remain 🗓July 27, 2020
Learning how to write more expertly gives health practitioners a skill with which to build therapeutic relationships, improve patient outcomes, and live in a more engaged way. […]