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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. Prizewinners present their work at a special PMH event each spring.

Student Artwork

The Anatomy Garden

Created by Grace Wang, Yale School of Medicine '25

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.

Murmurs

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.

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.

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

Photo by 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