News from Arts and Humanities in Medicine
Applications are now accepted for the Maine Arts & Humanities in Medicine Certificate, part of the UMaine Intermedia Program, now in its third year. Professionals and students, from healthcare and art research backgrounds, converge over the course of one year to discuss the role of humanities in wellness practice. The program is designed to support practitioners, and the seminar is delivered online. Students and faculty can participate from across the country. In keeping with University of Maine’s R1 rating, the program investigates modalities of research that serve the intersection of arts and medicine.
Certificate Overview: Maine Arts & Humanities in Medicine, is the result of an inter-organizational working group from Northern Light/Eastern Maine Medical Center (NL/EMMC), the UMaine Institute of Medicine and Intermedia Department of the University of Maine. This program is focused on the intersection of arts, humanities and medicine. The program brings together practitioners from many fields and disciplines to explore imaginative solutions to the issue of well being in the 21st century.
This program is designed to draw from multiple disciplines that will ultimately complement, challenge, and inspire the imaginations of practitioners and patients alike by bringing together creative producers and medical practitioners to explore creative approaches to health and well-being and the role of the arts and humanities in such endeavors.
The certificate is a concentration within the Intermedia Program and thus draws from existing Intermedia courses as well as develops a key two-semester sequence on Arts and Medicine. The UMaine Institute of Medicine has provided two fellowships- one artist, and one medical to participate in the program.
Learn more here.
Qualified applicants should have a demonstrated interest in and aptitude for the arts and humanities. Physician candidates will be board certified or board eligible. Graduate student candidates must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university
Information about application here.