Awards
Fellowship in Medical Humanities
Each year, the Division offers a competitive award of one Fellowship in Medical Humanities (FIMH). This one-year Fellowship provides medical students the chance to study an area of the Medical Humanities that may interest them considerably, but that cannot be explored adequately within the constraints of the regular curriculum. The program encourages medical students to research aspects of healthcare within George Engel's medical framework-- to consider their places and those of their patients in relationship to self, family, community, nation, and biosphere. And to do students will use materials and methodologies of humanities disciplines, including, literature, fine arts, philosophy, ethics, religious studies, visual and cultural studies, law and history.
The Fellowship is intended to provide an intellectual opportunity and funding for substantive and innovative humanities-focused projects on medical topics or issues. FIMH hopes to nurture a balance of humanistic and scientific perspectives. The Fellowship does not support completion of degree programs at other institutions. The Fellowship cannot be deferred from the year in which it is granted.
Fellowship application due date is February 7, 2010.
FIMH Application Materials and instructions
Medical Humanities Summer Research Student Grants
Co-sponsored by the Student Enrichment Program, the Division offers several summer grants to eligible students with summer research proposals whose topic, objectives and methodology are more appropriate to humanities or social sciences than clinical basic sciences. Contact Adrienne Morgan, adreinne_morgan@urmc.rochester.edu for further information and deadlines.
Medical Humanities/Ethics Enrichment Grants
The Division offers a number of small grants of up to $250.00/student and available to all medical students in good standing to support small projects, conferences, workshops related to humanities and/or ethics which will enrich the individual student's medical experience. Students must submit a two page application which includes an explanation and justification for the project, conference, workshop or experience, and a clear budget statement explaining how the funding would be used. Applications are accepted throughout the year. Funds cannot be used retroactively for events or activities already completed. Students may apply for only one Enrichment grant per academic year.
Rochester Academy of Medicine Awards for Essays on a Medical or Historical Subject
Every year the Rochester Academy of Medicine (RAOM) offers a number of awards from $300 - $750 to medical students, physicians, and other health care professionals for essays on a topic in medicine or medical history. These awards are available in the fields of geriatrics, nursing, adult primary care, trauma and emergency medicine, surgery, occupational medicine, medical history any medical subject. Further information is available on the RAOM website or from Andrea Ehmann, email: andrea_ehmann@urmc.rochester.edu.
2009 Faculty / Staff / Student Creative Excellence Award Contest
The Interdisciplinary Cluster on Health and Human Values in Health Care Executive Committee would like to thank everyone who submitted entries and is pleased to announce this year’s winners. There was a tie for first place in the Student category, and this year’s Faculty winner, Dr. Colleen Fogarty, also won the award last year. Each first-place winner receives a cash prize of $200 and an award plaque. Honorable mention was awarded to a Student and a Staff member and each receives a $100 cash prize.
Please join us in congratulating the recipients!
Their submissions can be viewed by clicking on the description.
STAFF AWARD: ERICA BURNELL, RN
WINNING SUBMISSION: A personal essay about preserving human values in the health care system for elderly patients
In her own words: “I have been a nurse here at Golisano Children’s Hospital for 20 years. I worked 13 years as a bedside nurse in the NICU and 7 years ago stepped into Neonatology research where I currently work. I am married to a wonderful husband and have 4 beautiful children. My family is very loving and my parents are very dear to me. With my sister’s help (from Seattle) with the financial aspects of my parents’ care and my medical knowledge, we try to make the best decisions possible for our parents. This has been a challenge for us. Family is too important and should be cherished through all aspects of life”
FACULTY AWARD: COLLEEN FOGARTY, MD, MSC
WINNING SUBMISSION: “Marked, Outside and In: A Trilogy of 55 Word Stories"
Dr. Fogarty is Assistant Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency and practices at Brown Square Community Health Center, where she serves as Residency Site Director.
Dr. Fogarty first encountered the 55-word story format several years ago. She has published several stories in this form and has recently initiated a 55-word story column for the journal, Families, Systems, and Health, set to be published Fall of 2009. She comments, “I have found that writing an ultra-short story helps me distill critical moments in my own work as a family physician and teacher, and now, in response to my own serious diagnosis.”
She would like to especially acknowledge Dr. Susan McDaniel and the participants in the Department of Family Medicine Professional Writing Seminar for their support and encouragement along the way, and to the participants of the Voices and Visions workshop at the Breast Cancer Coalition of Rochester, for their comments on earlier drafts of her writing.
STUDENT AWARD: ELTON LAMBERT, CLASS OF 2009, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY
WINNING SUBMISSION: a poem, “Tell me what you don’t like about yourself”
In his own words: “I am a recent graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and will be pursuing residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at UT-Houston Medical School. Within ENT I have interests in Head and Neck Oncology and Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery. The poem explores a Facial Plastics Surgeon's introspective views on how some of his procedures take away many of the signs of aging. Before a consultation, he ponders what these signs mean and the implications of removing them. The title of the poem comes from the TV show, Nip/Tuck, which chronicles the lives of two plastic surgeons in Miami/Los Angeles.”
STUDENT AWARD: EDWIN TAN, GRADUATE STUDENT, ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
WINNING SUBMISSION: glass artwork, “Humanity”
Ed Tan is a graduate student on the River Campus and has lived in the Rochester area for the past eight years. After watching a PBS documentary on glassblowing four years ago, he began working with glass. Outside his academic pursuits, he plays the flute and sings with the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and is an emergency medical technician at Perinton Volunteer Ambulance Corps in Fairport, NY.
In his own words: "I was going through a pile of glass fragments that had accumulated over a week of fusing. Some of these glass strips had gathered together. It reminded me of looking at gel electrophoresis. While each was a distinct and separate piece of art, they also shared the same properties like a melting pot of pieces that could contribute to a larger work. I thought to myself, "Isn't this the same with the world in which we live in? Although we can and should celebrate our religious and cultural differences, we are all part of the fabric of humanity. Each of us is unique but at the same time contributes to the mosaic of society.”
Honorable Mention: Haleh Kadivar, First-Year Medical Student
SUBMISSION: a poem, “Mildred the piano instructor and the origin of Meaning”
Haleh was born in Tehran, Iran buthas spent most of her life in Chattanooga, TN. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where she majored in Neuroscience and minored in French. Currently, Haleh is working towards her M.D. degree here at the University of Rochester. Her experiences in the anatomy dissection room and her love of E. E. Cummings' poetryinspired this piece.
Honorable Mention: Amy Huser, Sr. Information Analyst, Dept. of Radiation Oncology
SUBMISSION: a song: "Tomorrow" (words and music) , “Tomorrow (lyrics only) ”
ASCAP recording artist Amy Huser spends her days as a senior information analyst for the NIAID-sponsored Center for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation, where she has worked happily since 1999. The song is a response to the suicide of a URMC study patient; it was written and recorded on the day that Amy learned of his passing.
The Cluster on Human Values in Health Care is grateful to the University Committee on Interdisciplinary Study for providing the funds for this annual contest.
