May 01, 2025
Winners of the Yale School of Medicine Program for Humanities in Medicine annual Health Professions Students' Creative Writing & Art Contest.
Programs
Speaker Series
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Anthony Ryan Hatch, PhD, Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging Of Captive America, February 2019.
PHM hosts speakers and organizes roundtable discussions throughout the year for students, faculty, staff, and the broader community.
See the events calendar for upcoming lectures and discussions. This link provides access to recordings of past events.
PHM Health Professions Students Creative Writing & Art Contest
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An annual writing and art contest open to all Yale health professions students. Medical students are eligible for the Marguerite Rush-Lerner awards; all students are eligible for PHM awards. Prize winners present their work at a special PMH event each spring.
May 02, 2025
On May 1, 2025, the Yale School of Medicine Program for Humanities in Medicine (PHM) celebrated the winners of its annual Health Professions Students' Creative Writing & Art Contest. The event highlighted the students’ talent and the value of poetry, prose, and the visual arts during their training.
Yale-University College London (UCL) Annual Health Professions Poetry Competition
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This annual poetry competition provides health professions students at Yale and University College London the opportunity creatively to address their experiences through poetry.
Yale Poetry and Medicine Seminar
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The Yale Poetry and Medicine Seminar examines poetry’s relevance to health care and to the lives of medical students, doctors, other health professionals, and patients. We ask questions such as: Is there a place for poetry as a therapeutic intervention? As a coping strategy? As a reflective intervention? As a form of social connection? The sessions are co-led by Nora Segar, MD/MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale School of Medicine and Director of Palliative Medicine the St. Raphael Campus, and Sarah Cross, MD, Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine. The seminar will run for six, 90-minute sessions.
Faculty Directors: Nora Segar, MD/MPH and Sarah Cross, MD
Narrative Medicine Seminar
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Led by physician and author Anne Merritt, MD, MS, this 6-session seminar for students in Yale’s health professional schools explores the vital connection between storytelling and the art of healing. Through reflective writing exercises inspired by diverse literary works, you’ll learn to craft powerful narratives that build empathy, improve communication skills, and enhance overall well-being.
Murmurs: The Creative Journal of Yale Health Profession Students
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Students publish Murmurs, which includes student visual arts and writing, one to two times a year. Health profession students often collaborate with Yale art students on the publication.
See full issues of Murmurs, featuring Yale students' visual arts and writing.
PHM Writer-in-Residence
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Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH, author most recently of Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, works with medical, PA, and PA Online students, residents, and faculty on an individual or group basis, including individual editing, book discussions, and small group workshopping. Her focus is on opinion pieces, essays, and science writing for the public.
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Creative Writing Workshops
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Lorence Gutterman, MD, leads this series of workshops for students in Yale’s health professional schools, with a focus on poetry and prose.
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Fine Arts
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Yale University Art Gallery
There are numerous initiatives involving fine arts including: the Café Med Art Gallery (367 Cedar Street), which displays the artwork of YSM community members; hands-on workshops on topics such as graphic memoir, art and activism, photography, and mask-making; and tours of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, and the YSM’s Medical Historical Library.
Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra
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Credit: Robert A. Lisak
Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 2008, the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra is an all-volunteer orchestra featuring members of the Yale medical community. Led by conductor Robert Smith, this group rehearses weekly and performs three concerts a year.
Founder and Board President: Lynn Tanoue, MD
Collaborations and Connections
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- YSM Program for Art in Public Spaces
- History, Humanities, and Health Working Group
- Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop
- Yale Internal Medicine Annual “Stories of Internal Medicine” Grand Rounds
- Yale Internal Medicine Annual Writing and Medicine Grand Rounds
- Yale Pediatrics Annual Dr. Marjorie Rosenthal Pediatric Stories Grand Rounds
- VA “Penning the Pandemic” Reflective Writing Workshops
- Op-Ed Writing Seminars