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  • The House of God by Samuel Shem McGovern Center course features author in discussion

    The McGovern Center’s fourth-year elective, Humanistic Elements of Medicine includes three weeks of graduate-style humanities seminars with Center faculty. During...

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  • SCoPE committee Center faculty work with SCoPE to define professionalism

    McGovern Medical School’s Student Committee on Professionalism and Ethics (SCoPE) features committee members from each class of second- through fourth-year...

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  • Science Fiction Science fiction and racial bias are focus of interview with Keisha Ray

    Keisha Ray, PhD, was interviewed recently by Ashley Abramson of Elemental by Medium. In the interview, Ray explains that racial...

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  • Keisha Ray Keisha Ray interviewed about race and gender

    Keisha Ray, PhD, was interviewed recently on the question of what doctors are doing about racial bias in healthcare. In...

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  • Nathan Carlin Nathan Carlin named to Academy of Master Educators

    The Academy of Master Educators welcomed recently Nathan Carlin, PhD among its members. The Academy is an organization of scholars...

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  • Poverty Simulation participants Poverty Simulation featured in UTHealth News

    UTHealth News recently covered the Poverty Simulation, an innovative approach to teaching medical students about poverty and the challenges some...

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  • AAMC News logo Gun Violence and Physicians blue book discussed in AAMCNews

    Since Spring 2018, Gun Violence and Physicians: What You Need to Know has been offered as a blue book elective...

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  • Year in Review 2018 McGovern Center electives and programs featured in Year in Review

    McGovern Medical School’s annual Year in Review, At the Epicenter of Trauma, features several offerings of the McGovern Center. “Medical...

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  • Music sheet Austin Wang performs for humanities course project

    Humanistic Elements of Medicine is a fourth-year elective offered by the McGovern Center. By the end of the course, students...

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  • Students attending Gun Violence & Physicians elective Gun Violence and Physicians blue book highlighted in campus story

    Led by medical students Michael Bagg and Marina Ibraheim, Gun Violence and Physicians is a blue book elective series offered...

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  • McGovern Day Kathrine McGovern joins McGovern Day celebration

    McGovern Day celebration welcomes special guest, Mrs. Kathrine McGovern.

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  • U.S. News & World Report logo Poverty Simulation mentioned in U.S. News & World Report

    McGovern Medical School's use of the Community Action Poverty Simulation discussed in national story, Rebecca Lunstroth quoted.

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  • Woods Nash Article in The Atlantic references Woods Nash

    Woods Nash's recent article about limitations of medical ethics cases discussed in The Atlantic.

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  • Student participate in Poverty Simulation Medical students learn about poverty in simulation

    Houston Chronicle article follows up on Poverty Simulation and lessons learned by students.

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  • Year in Review 2017 Center programs featured in 2017 Year in Review

    Arts & Resilience and Anson Koshy's photography course are featured in Finding the Silver Lining.

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  • Students participating in Poverty Simulation Rebecca Lunstroth brings Community Action Poverty Simulation to McGovern Medical School

    Medical students participate in Poverty Simulation.

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  • Nathan Carlin Nathan Carlin to participate in funded project with the Association for Theological Schools

    Nathan Carlin joins study group alongside faculty and administrators to explore educational models and practices in theological education.

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  • Master Educators inductees 2017 Rebecca Lunstroth inducted into Academy of Master Educators

    Academy of Master Educators inducts Center associate director and faculty member, Rebecca Lunstroth.

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  • Health Humanities Conference Program McGovern Center hosts annual conference

    McGovern Center hosts successful international conference on health humanities.

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  • Jurisprudence students of 2017 MSIV students participate in mock trial for Medical Jurisprudence

    Rebecca Lunstroth leads MSIVs in mock trial and hearing.

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  • Master Educators inductees 2016 Academy of Master Educators inducts Thomas Cole

    McGovern Center director among inductees of the 7th Academy of Master Educators.

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  • Jurisprudence students MSIV students stage mock trial to learn about jurisprudence

    McGovern Medical School students participate in mock trial.

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  • ASBH McGovern Center involved in national conference

    Staff and faculty present at ASBH.

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  • Cambridge Quarterly Nathan Carlin and Woods Nash published in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

    Articles by Nathan Carlin and Woods Nash published.

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  • Nathan Carlin Blog post for The Lancet Student written by Nathan Carlin

    Nathan Carlin authored recently a blog The Lancet Student.

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  • ASBH McGovern Center members present at ASBH

    Nathan Carlin and other Center members presented at the ASBH Annual Meeting.

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  • Bryant Boutwell Bryant Boutwell discusses the importance of medical humanities

    Recent talk on the importance of medical humanities to medical education presented by Bryant Boutwell.

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  • Osler Society Meeting Bryant Boutwell gives presentations at Green Templeton and UT Medical School

    Presentations given in Oxford and at the Medical School by Bryant Boutwell.

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