The Medicine & the Muse Program is the home for the arts and humanities at the medical school, with programs that support diversity and integrate the arts and humanities into medical education, scholarly endeavors, and the practice of medicine.
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Announcing: Storytelling and Medicine Summer Program
Stanford University’s eight-week virtual program in Medical Humanities emphasizes study in creative expression—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, dance, visual art, podcasting, and more—that encourages students to explore through stories and lectures the complex influences of medicine, art, and the human experience.
Learn more about the Storytelling and Medicine Summer Scholar Program by checking out the brochure, exploring our unique world-class faculty, Laurel Braitman PhD, Animal Madness, Danielle Ofri MD, What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine, Lucy Kalanithi MD, When Breath Becomes Air, and learning about our Med Scholars Program for current medical students.
Deadline extended: Feb 1, 2023
The Dr. Paul Kalanithi Writing Award is now closed. Thank you for your submissions!
Paul Kalanithi was a physician writer and neurosurgery resident at Stanford University. In the final years of his training, he was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. His memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, beautifully chronicles his reflections on living with illness and the meaning of legacy. The Paul Kalanithi Writing Award was created in his memory.
Winners will be announced: March 11, 2023
June 8, 2020
Rally by the Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine department.
We at Medicine & the Muse join Stanford Medicine and its departments in denouncing the societal and structural racism that leads to violence against Black Americans. This systemic racism also leads to widespread health inequalities: a higher death rate from COVID-19, misconceptions about pain perception, and for Black women, a much higher breast cancer death rate. The list goes on. We at Medicine & the Muse stand for inclusion, diversity, respect, and justice. We stand with our Black friends, colleagues, patients, students, trainees, and others who are suffering.
“In this biomedical revolution, we need the humanities now more than ever.”
-Lloyd B. Minor, MD, Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/04/06/the-humanities-and-medicine/
Program Features and News
11/8/2022 A New Orchestra and Chorus Bring a Medical Community Together
Remarkably, the musicians in the Bay Area’s newest orchestra and chorus spend the majority of their waking hours not in rehearsal halls but in doctors’ offices, hospitals, medical clinics, and classrooms. Formed in response to the isolation people worldwide have experienced during the pandemic, the Stanford Medicine Chorus and Stanford Medicine Orchestra hold as a fundamental principle a mission to counteract the exactitude and solitary focus of medical training and specialty expertise.
11/2/2022 Healing in harmony: Stanford medicine faculty, students and staff debut new orchestra and chorus
“I think there are many similarities between playing music and performing surgery or science. They’re creative in different ways and I think creativity is a common theme,” Steinberg said.
11/1/2022 We Are Stanford Med: Melanie Ambler
They’re students, clinicians, scientists and researchers. They’re also artists, influencers, patients, scholars and advocates. They hail from all over the globe and come to Stanford Medicine carrying big ideas and dreams. With passions that stretch beyond the lab, classroom and clinic, they share their “why” as they pursue science and medicine.
10/25/2022 Stanford Medicine wins national awards for COVID-19 remembrance project and work by media creators
CASE honored the institution with a grand gold-level Circle of Excellence award in the category for multiday, in-person special events for the COVID-19 remembrance project, “Apart-Together.” The program was spearheaded by the Medicine and the Muse program, the medical school’s home for arts and humanities.
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Upcoming Events
Panel Discussion "Salt in My Soul" Film
Jan 23, 2023 | 7-8:30 pm
Oak West, Tresidder
View film online before the event on Stanford Kanopy
WINTER WRITING & STORYTELLING WORKSHOP FOR CLINICAL SUDENTS
Feb 5, 2023 | 9am-4pm
Pie Ranch, Pescadero, CA
In-person | Register by enrolling in PEDS 231
CONDUIT: An evening of Neuroscience Research and Dance
March 3, 2023 | Evening TBD
Stanford, CA
In-person | Contact hartman7@stanford.edu for more information
Informational Session for *NEW* Stanford Medicine Orchestra
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Informational Session for *NEW* Stanford Medicine Chorus
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Ongoing Events
Writing Medicine: Weekly reflective writing session for healthcare workers and their loved ones
A virtual space for healthcare workers and the people who love them to write, reflect and share.
Saturdays
10AM – 11AM PST
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