Medical Humanities and Ethics, University of Nevada School of Medicine Integrates Health, Humanism, Arts, History and Culture

Marin Gillis Directs New Medical Humanities and Ethics Program University of Nevada School of Medicine


We are very pleased today to introduce CCAHTE regional liaison, Dr. Marin Gillis,
originally from Saskatchewan, who is currently Director of Medical Humanities and Ethics, University of Nevada School of Medicine. Marin in her new post has launched some very progressive programs at UNSOM some which have integrated the arts into medical education and programming.


Dr. Marin Gillis is the new and first Director of Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Nevada School of Medicine (UNSOM). She was born and raised in Saskatchewan, followed a BA Hons in philosophy and history at the University of Ottawa, and holds two graduate degrees in philosophy, an L.Ph. from the Higher Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven Belgium, and a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary.

At the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Marin has developed a Division with five sections:

1) Humanism, Professionalism and Ethics

2) Health and the Human Spirit

3) Arts in Medicine

4) History and Culture of Medicine

5) Narrative Medicine

She created the division by organizing teaching that was already taking place in medical courses, recruiting liberal arts professors to lecture, and developing longitudinal study in clinical ethics and narrative medicine (with capstone 4th year electives in each area). In other partnerships with the School of Fine Arts at UNR, the Reno medical and arts communities, and government funding agencies, she curates art exhibits at the Medical School Gallery and organizes and gives public lectures in medical humanities and ethics. The University of Nevada School of Medicine students hold a yearly art show and publish an annual literary arts journal called "The Stethoscope" which will be online by January 2008. Her academic fields of expertise are the ethics of medical biotechnologies and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is a Steering Committee member of the Association of Feminist Ethics and Social Theory as well as a blogger at the Women’s Bioethics Project.

We welcome Marin Gillis as a CCAHTE regional liaison and look forward to our future connections as well as hearing more about The University of Nevada School of Medicine and upcoming work in Medical Humanities and Ethics.
C.M.


Other related links FYI

University of Nevada School of Medicine http://www.unr.edu/med/
Library/Medical History
http://www.unr.edu/med/hom.asp
Great Basin History of Medicine Photo Archive http://www.unr.edu/med/dept/hom/GBHOMPhotoArchive/about.html


Info:
Marin Gillis, LPh, PhD
mgillis@medicine.nevada.edu

New Links in Education, Health, Humanities

Our CCAHTE subscriber network includes cross disciplinary
representation from universities and other organizations in
North America and internationally actively involved in arts
informed research,medical humanities, aging research and many
other fields. I thought periodically I would share some of
these links with you which might help foster your own
new links and connections in the creative arts, health,
training and education.

Today's links:

OISE Ontario Institute of Studies in Education,
Centre for Arts Informed Research
http://home.oise.utoronto.ca/~aresearch/airchome3.html

Centre for Ethics, Humanities, Palliative Care
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/medhum/

Dalhousie University Humanities in Medicine Program
Faculty of Medicine, Dalhouse University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
http://humanities.medicine.dal.ca/

Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine Program
University of Alberta, Edmonton
http://www.med.ualberta.ca/education/ahhm.cfm

Institute of Medical Humanism
Centre for Communication in Medicine
Bennington, Vermont
http://medicalhumanism.org/contact/contact.html

Boston University School of Public Health,
Dept. of Health Law Bioethics and Human Rights
http://sph.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=90