ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity

Ethics Talk: How the US Census Left Latinx Americans Behind

This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on how decisions about demographic data collection have the power to illuminate or obscure health inequity and the work that the…

Ethics Talk: Should You Trust Influencers’ Posts About Dietary Supplements?

This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on dietary supplement safety and the limited legal means of reining in social media influencers’ advertisements about dietary supplements. Featured guests…

Ethics Talk: The Generative Power of Abolition

This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on how “abolition medicine” can motivate critical responses to medicine’s expressions of hyper-punitive, deeply racialized exercises of state authority. Featured guests…

Activating Empathy Through Art in Cancer Communities

The Aesthetics of Health (AOH) undergraduate visual art studies course at the University of Texas at Austin aimed to enhance art students’ awareness of cancer’s impact not only medically but also socially, emotionally, financially, and spiritually and to examine how…

How an Arts-Based Clinical Skills Set Can Be Assessed During OSCEs

Arts-based activities’ roles in medical education is to challenge students to cultivate clinical skills using ART (aesthetics, reflection, time). ART activities offer opportunities for students to cultivate creative dimensions of their clinical skills and to reflect on their responses to…

How a Medical Orchestra Cultivates Creativity, Joy, Empathy, and Connection

Inspired by research indicating that exposure to humanities correlates with reduced burnout, the Nebraska Medical Orchestra was founded in 2018 as a collaboration between the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Music….

Songwriting and Youth Self-Concept

Current literature on the therapeutic outcomes of youth engagement in active music-based interventions is limited in terms of both the number of studies and methodology. This pilot study combined phenomenology and quantitative measures of self-esteem and self-efficacy to explore the…

What Are the Right Tools for Studying Arts in Health Interventions?

The arts can touch places that are difficult to recognize and understand, capture in words, or measure by numbers whether you’re an artist, a patient, or an educator. This ineffability presents a dilemma for practitioners and researchers in arts in…

How Should Surgical Palliative Success Be Defined?

Palliative surgery is often defined as surgical intervention with intent to improve a patient’s quality of life by relieving suffering secondary to symptoms of advanced disease. In the context of shared decision making about palliative surgery intervention, tensions can arise…