UMMS Affiliation

Lamar Soutter Library

Publication Date

2021-04-06

Document Type

Poster

Disciplines

Health Sciences and Medical Librarianship | Medical Humanities

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

Journal/Book/Conference Title

ACRL 2021 Virtual Conference

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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Media Format

youtube

Additional Files
ACRL2021_Palmer_OpeningMedicalHumanitiesToTheWorld_Transcript.pdf (179 kB)
Transcript of videorecording
ACRL2021_Palmer_OpeningMedicalHumanitiesToTheWorld_Handout.pdf (199 kB)
Handout with links and resources
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