Beyond Collaboration: The Quiet Rivalries of Medicine
Amr Ihab reflects on their experience of medical training and how cultures of competition and rivalries among medical professionals can be challenged through the medical humanities.
Creative Approaches to Empathic Healthcare
If empathy for patients declines in the course of a doctor’s training, can creative practice help redress the balance?
‘Feeling Medicine’: Book Review
The Polyphony’s very own Associate Editor Chase Ledin reviews Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training (New York: New York University Press, 2020) by Kelly Underman. Feeling Medicine investigates the role of the
Rethinking the Humanities in Medical Education
Nicole Piemonte reflects on the role of the humanities in US medical curricula. When it comes to humanists working in medical schools, I am among the very few and very fortunate. Unlike many of
Learning how to listen
Megan Griffin explores how the listening skills gained as a professional musician have benefited her practice as a medical doctor.