The Human Story of Illness: Health Humanities Portraits for Physicians in Training

FAIN: AC-258909-18

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Chicago, IL 60612-4305)
Sandra Sufian (Project Director: June 2017 to October 2021)

The creation of health humanities portraits as case studies for use in the curriculum of the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

The Human Story of Illness: Health Humanities Portraits for Physicians in Training will establish a series of workshops over two years in which a core group of UI-COM faculty will develop “health humanities portraits” for the medical student curriculum. This process has three steps: 1) Using their distinct disciplinary lenses, invited humanities experts will develop portraits and refine them with our faculty during on-site workshops. Each portrait will consist of a first-person patient story and humanities scholarship that illuminates the story’s social, cultural, ethical and affective themes; 2) With the experts’ guidance, our faculty core will then develop additional portraits using the same process; 3) Project personnel will create an online repository of these portraits that will be utilized by the medical school and shared with other institutions. Our project will enrich medical training by creating rigorous portraits that reveal the full texture of people’s illness experiences.

Associated Products

2019 Teaching Guide Framework (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: 2019 Teaching Guide Framework
Author: Sufian
Abstract: revised the teaching guide framework document in response to feedback from experts in year one and from faculty core and team members at end of year one.
Year: 2019
Audience: Graduate

Presentation to Health Humanities Consortium 2019 (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Presentation to Health Humanities Consortium 2019
Abstract: Presentation about concept of Health Humanities Portrait to audience at HHC 2019 in Chicago, IL
Author: Sufian
Date: 3/5/2019
Location: Chicago, IL

2019 Framework for Building a Health Humanities Portrait (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: 2019 Framework for Building a Health Humanities Portrait
Author: Sufian
Abstract: Revised HHP Framework document, responsive to project team, experts, and faculty core feedback.
Year: 2019
Audience: Graduate

Centering Patients, Revealing Structures: Critical Portraiture and the Health Humanities Portrait Approach (Article)
Title: Centering Patients, Revealing Structures: Critical Portraiture and the Health Humanities Portrait Approach
Author: Sandy Sufian
Author: Rebecca Garden
Author: Michael Blackie
Author: Joanna Michel
Abstract: Article for publication detailing the HHP, the portrait approach and five tenets of "critical portraiture" that underline the portrait approach that nurture humanities-infused analytic thinking skills.
Year: 2020
Access Model: open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: J of Medical Humanities
Publisher: J Medical Humanities

Health Humanities Project Repository (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Health Humanities Project Repository
Author: Sufian, Sandra
Abstract: Digital humanities platform through UIC library for housing repository.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://indigo.uic.edu/search?q=Health+Humanities+Portrait
Primary URL Description: Until website goes live, one can access the portraits here.
Access Model: subscription but once "published" then accessible.

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