Educational Projects And Programs

Anatomy Of Anatomy: In Images and Words
    A Photographic Exploration Of Issues Confronting First Year Medical Students During Their Rite Of Passage: The Gross Anatomy Course
    Jan 28 - Feb 1, 2002

Living in the Bonus Round
    Written and Performed by Steve Schalchlin
    In a one-hour program of story and song, lauded by the New York Times, People Magazine and Entertainment Weekly, Steve Schalchlin presents a positive and uplifting profile of one life with HIV.

Tamkin Medical Education Symposium
The Role Of Medical Humanities In Medical Education
    ...there is renewed interest among medical educators for pedagogical methods to help both experienced physicians and physicians-in-training maintain personal humanity and professional commitment. One important methodological approach to these challenges that is attracting increasing interest is in the field of medical humanities, including the integration of literature and the arts into medical education activities.

Tamkin Medical Education Symposium
Evaluation In Undergraduate Medical Education: Current Concepts
    As medical schools begin to embrace the philosophy of multidisciplinary integrated cmricula in delivering medical education, the challenge of designing valid and reliable evaluation methods is gaining priority.

Medical Student Art Exhibits
    The Office of Student Affairs, under the leadership of Dr. Marianne Ross, organizes an exhibit of medical student art approximately 6 times a year.

Photography and Medicine
    Eric Hegedus, MS I, November, 2001
    "Art has been a part of my life, in some form or another, for as long as I can remember. My creative expression manifests itself in the form of photography. "
Deep Canyon: One Woman's Experience with Ovarian Cancer
    Annan Paterson, Thursday, June 6, 2002
    A solo performance that explores the journey of a young wife, mother, and career woman who receives the unexpected and terrifying diagnosis of cancer.
Training The Medical Gaze: Uses Of The Arts In Medical Education
    January, 2003 (date TBA)
    Medicine and art have always had important things to teach each other. Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci dissected cadavers to understand the human body, while medical texts long relied on skilled illustrations to represent their science. But in the twenty-first century, with all the sophisticated technological tools available to physicians for discovering pathology and diagnosing disease, does art still have anything valuable to teach medicine?

 



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