The Health Humanities fellowship is a one-year-long program designed to provide Emergency

Medicine physicians with an in-depth understanding of the core foundational principles of the

Health Humanities as applied to clinical care, health professions education, and scholarship,

with an emphasis on how the Health Humanities may pertain to health equity and social justice.

This fellowship, the first of its kind, is especially timely and relevant - the humanities have been

recognized as tools of pedagogy, advocacy, expression, and critique necessary to advancing

health equity, and have been deemed crucial to health professions training by national

healthcare organizations. However, opportunities for targeted advanced faculty development or

graduate medical education training in these fields are limited.



Through a combination of didactics, experiential learning and application, and mentorship

within th...