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Paul Haidet speaks into a microphone at the rear of a classroom. Students type on laptops or look at the large screens and chalk board in the front of the room. A row of five students are seated, facing the class in the front of the room.

Haidet, colleagues to study how arts, humanities elevate medical education

4/15/19

Dr. Paul Haidet, distinguished professor of medicine, humanities and public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, will work with other experts to compile information on how the humanities and arts are used in the training of health care professionals. Haidet’s work is part of a broader study by the Association of American Medical Colleges on how to integrate arts and humanities into medical education.

Dr. Michael Green poses in a light blue shirt and dark vest against a blue, lightly textured backdrop.

Green gets serious about comics

4/26/18

Dr. Michael Green, professor and interim chair of Penn State College of Medicine’s Department of Humanities, discussed how reading and creating comics helps students with practical doctoring skills during a panel discussion on March 1 at the National Institutes of Health.

Two musicians, playing a hammer dulcimer and harp, perform as three people sitting nearby listen.

Center Stage Arts in Health program awarded NEA grant

2/7/18

The Center Stage Arts in Health program at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine has received a National Endowment for the Arts award of $10,000 to build partnerships with two local performing groups.

First Friday presentation to feature ‘Time to Go’

2/22/17

The Kienle Center Players Drama Group will present a staged reading of the play “Time to Go” by C. E. McClelland at the next First Friday presentation, hosted by the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine.

Writing a novel the focus of next Humanities First Friday

9/21/16

Dr. John Benedict will present “Pursue your Passion and Write a Successful Novel” at the next Humanities First Friday on Oct. 7 on the campus of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine.

Hershey Lectureship in the History of Medicine set for May 6

4/13/16

The Department of Humanities' 2016 Hershey Lectureship in the History of Medicine will be held at noon May 6 in Room C2860 on the Penn State College of Medicine campus. Carol L. Tilley, associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present “The Psychopathology of Comics Reading: The Troubled Legacy of Fredric Wertham’s Public Health Campaign.”

Med School impressionism class

The art of medicine

2/9/16

Imagine trying to paint a copy of one of Vincent van Gogh’s or Claude Monet's works — without being able to look at it. Instead you can ask a partner short, close-ended questions and do your best. That was one of the challenges students faced as part of the class “Impressionism and the Art of Communication.” The monthlong class, which Dr. Michael Flanagan taught for the first time in January, gives Penn State College of Medicine students a chance to approach what they’re learning from a new direction.

Aaron Densley in "Drifting"

Theater professor’s play serves as springboard for medical students’ discussion

9/15/15

Penn State theater professor Bill Doan and collaborators Andy Belser and Elisha Clark Halpin took their play, “Drifting,” on the road to the Penn State Hershey Medical Center on Sept. 15, where master of fine arts acting students Megan Pickrell and Aaron Densley performed scenes for an ethics and professionalism class. The play, about siblings who find a way to connect after one of them suffers a traumatic brain injury, was used as a springboard for discussions about the ethics surrounding end-of-life decisions.

Presentations to showcase the humanistic side of medicine

4/22/15

First-year medical students will present their “patients as teachers” documentary films on Thursday, April 30 at 5 p.m. Also, the May Humanities First Friday presentation on May 1 will feature a special lecture by guest speaker Dr. Carol Chou.

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