In this panel, presenters will showcase ways in which they are equipping future healthcare professionals with humanities-based approaches to facilitate improved patient communication, contribute to well-rounded professional identity formation, and reduce burn-out. By interacting with visual arts and graphic medicine, engaging in narrative medicine reflections, and participating in medical improv activities, learners develop the ability to slow down, look closely, reflect and be fully present. Attendees will be led through an example of a hands-on narrative medicine exercise and reflection.

Learning objectives – As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:

• Define health humanities and describe how it is applied to healthcare education
• Implement techniques to integrate humanities-based approaches with health sciences instruction
• Examine the benefits of integrating health humanities into curricular and extracurricular activities and using the Biomedical Library as a humanities hub
• Identify future opportunities to collaborate regarding health humanities

Presenters

• Gail Kouame gmkouame@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama
• Peyton McElroy pmcelroy@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama
• LoRen Modisa lmodisa@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama