Category: Medical Humanities
Medicine and the Arts
On Physician Identity and Advocacy
Our Department of Professionalism, Medical Ethics and Humanities at the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine – William H. Quasha Memorial had a double-header of a day today for the Introduction to the Medical Profession (IMP) subjects for first and second year medical students. IMP 1 (for first year students) focuses on identity formation […]
Medical Humanities back-to-back day
March 13, 2024 Medical Humanities module for Introduction to the Medical Profession (IMP) done for 1st year and 2nd year medical students. Whee Grateful for supportive co-faculty that helped facilitate the small group discussions today. We started with a short talk by myself about the Medical (Health) Humanities, and then broke out into smaller groups […]
Bye, bye piano. End of an era.
Bye bye, piano. End of an era. I was 5 years old when mom and dad bought it in 1980: an investment towards my musical education as we realized piano playing wasn’t going to just be a phase I was going through. Thank you to my first piano teacher Charisse Gonzalez for helping us choose […]
Academic Adventures in Cebu
Earlier this year, I received an invitation to speak at the University of the Philippines Medical Alumni Society (UPMAS) 24th Grand Scientific Symposium (GSS) about integrating the Medical Humanities in the medical school curriculum. I was going to be part of a panel whose topic was new innovations in medical education: the other speakers were […]
On Wearing a White Coat
The interns nowadays at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) wear short white coats with short sleeves. When we were interns, the only thing distinguishing us from the rest of the medical students was a red nameplate; the other students had white nameplates pinned to the all-white uniform that was common to first- to fifth-year medical […]
Introduction to the Medical Humanities: Art Analysis Task
We had fun today: the Medical Humanities students presented their art analysis task, and we are now ⅔ of the way through the 2-week course. The students were asked to choose an art work related to health and/or medicine, and talk about it for 5-10 minutes during our session. Special thanks to the faculty who […]
Medical Humanities Elective: it’s showtime!
I think our first session (of six) went well for the inaugural Introduction to the Medical Humanities 2-week elective for interns (final year medical students – they are 2 months away from graduation!). As far as we know, this is the Philippines’ first elective within the medical school curriculum wholly dedicated to the Medical Humanities.
58. Making meaning out of illness through multiple lenses
Hooray, presentation done! Doreen the breast cancer mascot has made her debut on the international academic conference circuit. Grateful for the opportunity to talk about my breast cancer learnings and experiences (aka the craziness of 2022) at the Asia Pacific Bioethics Education Network Congress 2023, held at St. Luke’s Medical Center at Bonifacio Global City, […]
Medical Humanities Talk – Faculty Development
Monday morning (May 8, 2023) started off with Conversations that Matter – part of the St. Lukes Medical Center College of Medicine’s faculty development program. We played the video of my talk from the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges conference in 2022, and had a live open forum for questions and answers. In this way, […]
34. Pig Portraits
September 7, 2022 Pig portraits by Lisa, specially delivered by tita Suzette. Muchas, muchas gracias! Dave and Doreen, oil on linen. Also: 7 of 20 done (35%)! Just passed the ⅓ mark for radiation. [The last photo shows me, Lisa, and the pigs when she visited in January 2023]
