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Opening Medical Humanities to the World: Reflecting on Library Support for the Medical Humanities Lab
Library Publications
  • Lisa A. Palmer, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Tess Grynoch, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Regina Fisher Raboin, University of Massachusetts Medical School
UMMS Affiliation
Lamar Soutter Library
Publication Date
2021-4-6
Document Type
Poster
Abstract

This poster tells the story of how the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Medical School has successfully collaborated with faculty leaders and medical students to launch the Medical Humanities Lab, which integrates the arts and humanities into medical education and healthcare through student, faculty, and staff collaborations fostering humanism in medicine. The Library has provided leadership, technology expertise, space for in-person meetings, logistical support for virtual meetings during the pandemic, and promotional assistance. In just over a year, the Lab has sponsored a dozen projects, including a storytelling event, a creative writing and photography journal, a blog, two podcasts, and a creative writing website. The projects, many of which are openly accessible, address important themes including health inequality and the impact of incarceration on medical care. This poster showcases this partnership; highlights projects, challenges, and facilitators of success; and features a survey and a multimedia sample from our projects.

Keywords
  • medical humanities,
  • medical libraries,
  • digital humanities,
  • collaboration,
  • outreach
Rights and Permissions
Copyright: © 2021 Palmer et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
DOI of Published Version
10.13028/bgv5-2c05
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Citation Information
Lisa A. Palmer, Tess Grynoch and Regina Fisher Raboin. "Opening Medical Humanities to the World: Reflecting on Library Support for the Medical Humanities Lab" (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/regina_raboin/15/