Programs
Speaker Series
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
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.
Announcing the Winners for the 2024 PHM Health Professions Creative Medical Writing and Art Contest
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| 1st Place | Terri Motraghi | Yale School of Nursing 2026 |
| 2nd Place (tie) | Kelly Dunn | Yale Physician Associate Program 2025 |
| 2nd Place (tie) | Fabrizio Darby | Yale School of Medicine 2027 |
| 3rd Place | Melanie Di Stante | Yale Physician Assistant Online Program 2025 |
| Honorable Mention | Nandini Sinha | Yale School of Public Health 2025 |
| Honorable Mention | Laurel Kaye | Yale School of Medicine 2025 |
| Prose |
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| 1st Place (tie) | Courtney Hart | Yale School of Nursing 2025 |
| 1st Place (tie) | Kelly Dunn | Yale Physician Associate Program 2025 |
| 2nd Place | Hana Ghoneima | Yale School of Medicine 2031 |
| 3rd Place | Hana Ghoneima | Yale School of Medicine 2031 |
| Honorable Mention | Kelly Dunn | Yale Physician Associate Program 2025 |
| Honorable Mention | Morgan Brinker | Yale School of Medicine 2026 |
| Art |
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| 1st Place | Lenique Huggins | Yale School of Medicine 2027 |
| 2nd Place | Hang Nguyen | Yale School of Medicine 2025 |
| 3rd Place (tie) | Stellan Lee | Yale School of Public Health 2024 |
| 3rd Place (tie) | Matthew Andersen | Yale School of Medicine 2026 |
| Honorable Mention | Matthew Andersen | Yale School of Medicine 2026 |
| Honorable Mention | Jean Claudine Raimondi | Yale School of Nursing 2025 |
| Honorable Mention | Winston Trope | Yale School of Medicine 2026 |
| Honorable Mention | Zeynep Inanoglu | Yale School of Nursing 2024 |
2024 Health Professions Creative Writing and Art Contest Awards Ceremony
2024 PHM Health Professions Creative Writing and Art Contest Award Ceremony
Program for Humanities in Medicine 2024 Health Professions Creative Writing and Art Contest Awards Ceremony
Winston Trope - Honorable Mention in Art category
2024 PHM Health Professions Creative Writing and Art Contest Award Ceremony
2024 PHM Health Professions Creative Writing and Art Contest Award Ceremony
"Black Motherhood in Medicine" Lenique Huggins - First place in Art category
"Submerged" Created by MD student Hang Nguyen. Second place in Art category
Zeynep Inanoglu - Honorable Mention in Art category
Yale-University College London (UCL) Annual Health Professions Poetry Competition
This annual poetry competition provides health professions students at Yale and University College London the opportunity creatively to address their experiences through poetry.
Northwestern/Yale Poetry and Medicine Seminar
Since 2021, Yale health profession students have had the opportunity to participate in this five-session seminar, which originated in 2018 at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Run in collaboration with the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, invited poets, and physicians working in narrative medicine, the seminar examines poetry’s relevance to health care and to the lives of medical students, doctors, other health professionals, and patients.
Faculty Director: Nora Segar, MD
Murmurs: The Creative Journal of Yale Health Profession Students
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
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.
Writer
Creative Writing Workshops
Lorence Gutterman, MD, leads this series of workshops for students in Yale’s health professional schools, with a focus on poetry and prose.
Workshop Leader
Fine Arts
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
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
- 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