By integrating arts and humanities throughout medical education, trainees and physicians can learn to be better observers and interpreters; and build empathy, communication and teamwork skills, and more.
Through the Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education (FRAHME), we will provide resources to help medical educators start, develop, and/or improve the use of arts and humanities in their teaching.
Our monograph, The Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education, provides an in-depth overview of the role arts and humanities play in educating a physician workforce to meet 21st-century health care needs, including enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, reducing costs, and promoting clinician well-being.
The Getting Started Guide is designed for educators who are new to incorporating arts and humanities into their programs, courses, or curricula. The Guide provides specific ideas and examples for integrating the arts and humanities into competency-based medical education as well as general guidance on logistics such as finding partners, selecting material and connecting with others.
Each year, the AAMC, the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM), and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation invite proposals from medical schools to host an event where undergraduate medical students have the opportunity to present creative works related to their experiences with diagnosis, diagnostic error, or learning the diagnostic process. Several schools are selected each year to receive a $5,000 grant to host their event.
The schools selected for awards in 2023 were Albany Medical College, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
In 2022, AAMC hosted a virtual forum with representatives from each of that year's awarded schools: Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and University of Toledo College of Medicine. Representatives presented summaries of their events and selected work from medical student artists and writers.
In partnership with StoryCorps, The Good Listening Project, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the AAMC collected hundreds of contributions to our story sharing project. This project took place in 2020 and 2021 and offered a way for physicians, residents, and medical students to reflect on the uncertainty surrounding the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice. Some prevailing themes of these contributions were disconnection, hope and gratitude, and grief and loss.
The AAMC has awarded eight $25,000 grants to U.S.-based member medical schools and teaching hospitals working on arts and humanities programs. These grantees will evaluate the impact of existing integrative arts and humanities programs or curricula across the continuum of medical education (undergraduate, graduate, continuing medical education).
In December 2020, the AAMC collaborated with the National Academics of Science, Engineering and Medicine to host a virtual event on the unique and valuable role the arts and humanities can play in medicine, medical education, and clinician wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event featured a tapestry of activities and demonstrations that showcase current, integrative arts and humanities approaches to teaching and learning in medicine.
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We are the humanities hub of FIU, fostering arts and culture from the heart of Miami. Working with partners across the university and beyond, we show how the humanities can respond to key issues of our times.
We met for "We're Here" as LGBTQ+ Pride Month came to a close. Our speakers reflected on the purpose of Pride; discussing the unique mix of celebration and advocacy that characterizes Pride events; and exploring how art, music, poetry, and performance shape the experiences and subjectivities of those who participate in Pride.
This virtual, public-facing program in honor of Juneteenth explored topics related to the history of the holiday, the ways it is experienced and celebrated by African Americans today, and the myriad social justice issues that cohere around it. The program brought together public figures, scholars, activists and artists, who together shed needed light on the past and inspire a hopeful vision for the future.
Digital technologies are increasingly important to arts and humanities research, expanding the horizons of research methods in all aspects of data capture, investigation, analysis, modelling, presentation and dissemination. This series, one of the first and most highly regarded in the field, covers a wide range of disciplines and provides an authoritative reflection of the 'state of the art' in the application of computing and technology. The titles in this peer-reviewed series are critical reading not just for experts in digital humanities and technology issues, but for all scholars working in arts and humanities who need to understand the issues around digital research.
On Thursday, May 11, 2023, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) re-introduced the Equity Through the Arts and Humanities Act (H.R. 3239). The legislation would create a grant program through the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for nonprofit and public entities, including faith-based and community organizations, that serve and are led by people of color. The program aims to support arts and humanities projects that work to dismantle systemic racism through the arts and humanities. Americans for the Arts and Americans for the Arts Action Fund strongly support this legislation and will continue working with arts advocates to build support for this legislation among members of Congress.
Everyone should have access to the arts. The truth, however, is that many traditionally underserved populations have inequitable access to the arts in their communities. These inequities have consequences. A popular narrative is that the arts simply create entertainment value, but a deeper look shows the profound effect access to the arts has on those most impacted by the justice system, children, veterans, low-income communities, and self-designated non-artists. Concentrated cultural districts are associated with reduced poverty without neighborhood displacement, improved child welfare, and lower morbidity.
Americans for the Arts serves, advances, and leads the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education.
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Foreword
Paige Morgan
Introduction
Part 1. Theory
Chapter One. Distant Reading, Computational Stylistics, and Corpus Linguistics: The Critical Theory of Digital Humanities for Literature Subject Librarians
David D. Oberhelman
Chapter Two. What Do Librarians Need to Know about Quantitative Methods in Digital Humanities?
Heather Froehlich
Chapter Three. Relearning Digital Humanities Librarianship
John Russell
Chapter Four. Centering our Values: A Framework for Digital Humanities in the Library
Pamella R. Lach
Chapter Five. Inclusive Design: A Method and Craft of Transforming Digital Humanities with User Experience
A. Miller
Part 2. Practice
Chapter Six. Into the Mix: Subject Liaison Librarians and Digital Humanities Research
Mark Dahlquist, Katie Gibson, and Jenny Presnell
Chapter Seven. Collaboration and CoTeaching: Librarians Teaching Digital Humanities in the Classroom
Brian Rosenblum, Frances Devlin, Tami Albin, and Wade Garrison
Chapter Eight. Construction and Disruption: Building Communities of Practice, Queering Subject Liaisons
Caro Pinto
Chapter Nine. A Checklist for Digital Humanities Scholarship
Elizabeth Lorang and Kathleen A. Johnson
Chapter Ten. Moderating a Meaningful DH Conversation for Graduate Students in the Humanities
Kathleen A. Langan and Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar
Chapter Eleven. Spaces, Skills, and Synthesis
Anu Vedantham and Dot Porter
Chapter Twelve. Sustaining the Digital Liberal Arts: Institutional Challenges in Looking Beyond Grant Funding
Ginny Moran, Aisling Quigley, Brooke Schmolke, and Louann Terveer
Chapter Thirteen. The Digital Humanities Summer Scholars Program: Opportunities for Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Providing a Space for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Library
Angela Perkins
Chapter Fourteen. The Restorative Potential of Library-Based DH: Reconnecting Learning Communities in the Age of COVID-19
Emma Annette Wilson, Russell Hugh McConnell, Johanna Pang, and Maria Katsulos
Appendix. Tools and Resources Referenced in this Book
About the Authors
Arianne Hartsell-Gundy is the Head, Humanities and Social Sciences Department and librarian for literature at Duke University. She was previously the humanities librarian at Miami University in Ohio. She holds a dual masters degree in Comparative Literature/Library Science at Indiana University, and a BA in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research interests include information literacy, graduate student pedagogy, collection analysis, and digital humanities. She is the co-editor of Learning in Action: Designing Successful Graduate Student Work Experiences in Academic Libraries and Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists.
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