ACEP Medical Humanities Section

Enjoy this latest piece from our own Jay Baruch:

Exposed and invisible in an ER hallway bed “Hallway beds cut into the bones that sustain emergency medicine, shaving away layers of the moral tenets and high standards, staff’s meaning and purpose, and the comfort and dignity of patients,” writes Jay Baruch.

Section members Rachel Kowalsky and Diane Birnbaumer ran into each other at the narrative medicine table at the Association for Writers and Writing Programs annual conference (AWP) in Baltimore!

Enjoy Rachel Kowalsky's new piece, here:

Rachel Kowalsky | -ette-review Rachel Kowalsky in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025

Time for another Visual Art award submission! This one is "Brain" by Minna Chang!

Here is another entry from this year's Visual Arts award contest, "Lungs" by Minna Chang.

Here's another entry in this year's Visual Arts Award contest: Ambulance ramp, Burundi, by Carlan Wendler, MD.

Enjoy this entry from Rob Golomb, MD, for this year's Visual Arts award contest, titled "Fiji Rural Clinic."

Congratulations to Carlan Wendler, MD, for winning this year's Visual Arts Award for his photo, "Patient transport, Burundi style."

Here's some conference information for those who are interested!

Symposium Information — Center for Visual Arts in Healthcare @ Brigham & Women's Hospital Bridging Visual Arts & Healthcare: Impact, Innovation, ResearchSeptember 23-25, 2026 Hosts: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School Symposium partners:  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Institute of Con...

Check out this cool article from our own Cindy Bitter! Perfect for "Buffy" and non-Buffy fans alike!

SGEM Xtra: Career Advice from Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine Date: July 9, 2025 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Cindy Bitter is an Associate Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Saint Louis University. She has a Master’s in Bioethics, and she is passionate about EM capacity building and physician resilience, especially improving wellness through time in n...

It's that time of year again! Submit your entries today!

Section of Medical Humanities Writing and Visual Arts Awards The Section of Medical Humanities is soliciting submissions for its eighteenth annual Writing Awards. Eligible pieces are creative, not scientific, works related to emergency medicine published in print or online between September 2024 and May 2025.