October 25, 2009

Bellevue Literary Review Poetry & Prose Reading

Please join us for an evening of poetry and prose on Sunday, October 25th, to celebrate the Fall issue of the Bellevue Literary Review. A unique contribution to both literature and medicine, the Bellevue Literary Review publishes works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with a focus on illness, health and healing.  It is published by the Department of Medicine twice a year.  For more information, please contact us (212-263-3973, info@BLReview.org) or visit our website at www.BLReview.org

Featured readers include Regie Cabico, Itzhak Kronzon, Paola Peroni, and Hal Sirowitz.  The event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.

November 5 – 6, 2009

** Art Museums and Medical Education: Conversations Across Disciplines  **

 The Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

The Harvard Art Museum and the Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School invite you to Art Museums and Medical Education a two-day, interdisciplinary platform for teaching, learning, and inspiring new methodologies to incorporate visual art in medical training.   

This symposium will offer a forum for participants to explore a variety of museum-based medical education opportunities.  We will focus on the ways in which the resonance of objects and the museum environment can be utilized to:

• Encourage observation, interpretation, and diagnostic skills development
• Promote individual reflection, foster empathy, and increase appreciation for the psychosocial context of patient experience
• Create a safe haven for medical trainees and faculty to deepen their own relationships with one another
• Prevent physician burn-out and encourage renewal 

There will be opportunities to explore the broader area of medical education and the arts, as well as the use of museum settings for patient care/therapy. 

We anticipate a wide variety of learning opportunities including an opening night poster session, speakers, panel presentations, and gallery-based art experiences.   We encourage you to share your work at the poster session – as this will be a primary forum for exchange of ideas and curricula.

Registration is free of charge but must be completed in advance.  The program will run from November 5th 12:00 noon – 10:00 pm (dinner optional) and November 6th 8:30 am -5 pm.  Registration and poster session submission forms are attached.

For more information contact: Susannah Hutchison, The Harvard Art Museum susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu  or 617 496 8576

Fall 2009 

** Poetry Contests **

Baylor College of Medicine has announced:

7th annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Award

This annual context honors the pre-eminent cardiovascular surgeon, pioneering medical scientist, gifted medical educator, prolific author and scholar, and passionate advocate of optimal healthcare throughout the world. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey long advocated a role for the humanities in medical educaiton in the development of a full, enriching intellectual life.

Submission of original poetry by undergraduates currently enrolled in accredited United States medical schools is welcome.

Guidelines:

1. Only original poetry by undergraduates currently enrolled in accredited U.S. medical schools is eligible.

2. Entrants must document enrollment in an accredited American medical school in pursuit of the M.D. degree via a copy of the student photograph ID card.

3. Each medical student may submit only one poem, not to exceed two pages.

4. Poems may be of any general or specific theme.

5. Entries must be postmarked no later than December 31, 2009.

Poems must be:

• Original, not published or under consideration for publication, and has not previously received a poetry award.
• Limited to two pages, double-spaced
• In English, no translations from other languages
• Printed on 8.5 x 11 inch bond paper 

A cover page should accompany this with the following information:

• Poet's name
• Current mailing and email addresses, telephone, and fax numbers if available
• Copy of student photograph ID card documenting medical school enrollment

Submissions should be sent to:

F. Charles Brunicardi, M.D., F.A.C.S.
DeBakey/Bard Professor and Chairman, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery
DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Award Baylor College of Medicine
1709 Dryden, Suite 1500
Houston, TX  77030

Winners will be announced on July 1, 2010

• First Prize: $1,000 cash and submittal to a major medical periodical for consideration of publication
• Second Prize: $500 cash
• Third Prize: $250 cash 

William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition

The Behaviorial Health Sciences Department of the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) is sponsoring its 28th annual poetry writing competition during the 2009-2010 academic year. The competition is open to medical students attending schools of medicine or osteopathy in the United States and Canada. Preliminary judging will be done byu English department faculthy at NEOUCOM's consortium universities, and final judgin will be by Richard M. Berlin, M.D., psychiatrist and poet from the University of MAssachusetts Medical School. The editors of the Journal of Medical Humanities will review the winning poems and consider them for possible publication.

• Entries must be postmarked no later than December 31, 2009
• Willing poems will be announced by March 15, 2010. The top three poets will be awarded $300, $200, and $100, respectively. In addition, the three winners will be invited to visit NEOUCOM on April 23, 2010, to read their poems. All travel expenses will be paid by the Behavioral and Community Health Science Department.
• Entry information and competition rules available here

Spring 2010

The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine
April 28 - 30, 2010

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of medicine will host a three-day conference focusing on the links between the science of medicine and the art of writing.

The University of Iowa is among the nation's premier centers for creative writing, and its programs attract writers from all over the world. A dozen Pulitzer Prize=winners, numerous National Book Award recipients, and four recent US Poet Laureates have attended the University of Iowa. The University is home to the International Writing Program, the Nonfiction Writing Program, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and the Iowa Review. It is also home to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the first creative writing degree program in the United States, and the model for contemporary writing programs.

More information and call for presentations available at http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/osac/examinedlife/.

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