(via Jules Bailey, Florida State University)
The ACRL Health Science Interest Group’s next First Friday Forum is scheduled online for Friday, November 1, from 12:00 to 1:30 PM CDT. The topic is “Forging a New Alliance: Engaging High School Students in the Health Humanities Through Special Collections and Archives”, and the presenters are Carrie J. Meyer, MA, University of Nebraska Medical Center, McGoogan Health Sciences Library; and Erin J. Torell, MA, University of Nebraska Medical Center, McGoogan Health Sciences Library. You do not have to be a member of ACRL to join us!
Health Humanities have been shown to improve observation and listening skills, increase empathy, and build tolerance to ambiguity. They can offer healthcare providers a means to connect and understand patients, and to have a healthy self-care outlet to build resiliency and prevent burnout. Introducing the health humanities to students before they begin their intensive university studies and health-oriented careers could further future participation in health humanities.
High School Alliance (HSA) is a pipeline program for Omaha-area public school juniors and seniors interested in a health sciences career to take classes from UNMC faculty. Since Spring 2022, the UNMC McGoogan Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives (SCA) faculty have designed, taught, and refined this course for students to utilize SCA rare books, archival material, and artifacts to create individual research papers, presentations, and a group exhibit project.
Collaborating with SCA faculty, experts in graphic medicine and narrative medicine, and UNMC clinical faculty in delivering the course provides health sciences students a combination of science and humanities pedagogies and to see how both are critical for health sciences professions. Art, poetry, narrative medicine, graphic medicine, philosophy, and history were utilized by SCA faculty and guest speakers.
For more information, including the learning objectives, and to register, please go here. Direct any questions to Jules Bailey, at jules.bailey@fsu.edu.