Medical Humanities
Academic Practice Track
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The hospital is full of stories. Patients, families, faculty and staff all bring their life experiences to its exam rooms and hallways, and together they create a unique and textured story that continues long after the encounter is closed. The mission of the Humanities APT is to lend context to those stories and support fluency in skillful seeing and hearing, receiving and transmitting patient stories, bearing witness, and meaning-making. We engage with a diverse range of art forms, and are dedicated to elevating and responding to the voices of groups who traditionally have not had a voice. Through these practices, we can support our patients as they navigate the complexity and uncertainty of illness, while bringing greater meaning and satisfaction to our own work.
Expectations:
1. Attendance at monthly Medical Humanities APT meetings
2. Completion of activities in the following categories:
· Attendance at conferences and meetings
· Teaching experiences
· Publications
· Experiences in administration and management
· Experiences in the fine arts
3. Completion of a scholarly project by the end of residency training
Track Directors
Track Directors
Dr. Rachel Kowalsky
Dr. Rachel Kowalsky
I have always seen the world through the lens of story. I am an avid reader, and have published fiction and essays on a wide range of platforms from litmags to medical anthologies. I am lucky to practice medicine in a place where the arts and humanities are viewed as essential to our craft, giving me the opportunity to bring diverse artists and thinkers to NYP, to help integrate the arts into curricula for medical students and residents, and to design and study narrative medicine curricula around physician wellness and implicit bias mitigation. I have facilitated narrative medicine workshops in New York City and nationally. One of my favorite aspects of my work is watching mentees and trainees find the right words, grow in their writing, and thereby grow as people and physicians.
Dr. Rishi Goyal
Dr. Rishi Goyal
Dr. Goyal's research, writing and teaching focuses on the reciprocal transformations that result when new ideas about health, disease and the body find forms of expression in fiction and memoirs. His most recent work explores the political, aesthetic, and social dimensions of the representation of physical trauma in literature. His writing has appeared in The Living Handbook of Narratology, Aktuel Forskning. Litteratur, Kultur og Medier, and The Los Angeles Review of Books among other places.
Dr. Goyal received his MD (2001) and his PhD in English and Comparative Literature (2010) from Columbia University. He was Chief Resident in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian (2009-10). Before returning to Columbia in 2012, Dr. Goyal was Director of Medical Humanism and Assistant Professor of English Literature and Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona where he was named Teacher of the Year (2011).
He is currently an Attending Physician in the Emergency Department at Columbia University Medical Center and a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.
Track Faculty
Track Faculty
Dr. Jeremy Simon
Dr. Sara Zaidi
Dr. Shiu-Lin Tsai
Dr. Barbara Lock
Dr. Nina Hu
“In a world such as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly”
-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
― Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
“With these situations that are hard to speak about, I always try to make a point that there’s something beautiful that sits side by side with it.”
-Jamar Roberts, Resident Choreographer, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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