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From Dr Robert Klitzman, Joseph Mailman School of Public Health Four  online lectures on Bioethics and Covid 19 in the US Inequality, Vulnerability, and Health Justice: Learning from the Pandemic   Ethics Consultations During COVID-19   The […]

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am delighted to share details about a virtual lecture series that I have organized over this new academic year.  All of the presentations are open and free, but there is a separate rsvp link for each.  I will send […]

Our students from the ARTBEAT HEALTH HUMANITIES BLOG and  the SYNESTHESIA ART CLUB have curated a wonderful art exhibit, now available to view online. Creative expression has flourished in these challenging times  and SYNESTHESIA now helps us […]

Please visit the following resource to explore options in mindful self-care. There are live ZOOM sessions you can register for and instructive videos : https://www.pause4providers.com/ […]

From Dr. Glen Bandiera, Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education    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 […]

“ARS MEDICA-A JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES”  is an award winning , biannual literary journal that explores the interface between the arts and healing, and examines what makes medicine an art . The journal was founded […]

Please see two opportunities below and thank you for all you continue to do to facilitate learning and lead during these challenging times. Stay well! […]

This initiative is open to all learners in the health sciences and related disciplines (i.e. medical students, nursing students, residents etc.). […]

This is the last of an online, weekly hour and a half of poetry workshop for health care students and clinical workers. For people working in acute and ongoing moments of need. For all of us now. What might poetry do here? […]

The coronavirus pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge on all levels of Canadian society. Essential workers on the so-called “front lines” are routinely cited as heroes in newsprint and online, on television broadcasts, and coffee shop signs because they risk developing a severe infection in the course of their daily work. […]

PLEASE SEE BIO-ETHICS RESOURCES PREPARED BY UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MEDICAL STUDENTS JANE ZHU, ALEX FLORESCU AND TEAM. Many thanks to them for this terrific initiative and to all of you who shared resources, curricula  and content. This collaborative […]

An anthology of comics, edited by Shelley L. Wall, PhD, Josh Feder, MD, Jillian Horton, MD, and Allan Peterkin, MD. […]