UIC College of Medicine Artists

Hi all! Trying to spread the word about this to make sure everyone has a chance to share their thoughts about the USMLE system :) Check it out if you haven't yet!

United States Medical Licensing Examination | Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) assesses a physician's ability to apply knowledge, concepts, and principles, and to demonstrate fundamental patient-centered skills, that are important in health and disease.

The UIC College of Medicine students came out to showcase their amazing talent on September 8 at Bar 10 Doors!
Photography by the ALSO talented Vincent Lee. See his website for the full set of photos: https://vleepics.pixieset.com/

Ahead of the upcoming UIC CoM talent show on September 18, here are photos from the 2016 talent show!! Thanks to Andrew Kuang for capturing these moments.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/03/medical-humanities/520623/

The Comics Revealing Medical School's Hidden Flaws and Hard Lessons How “graphic medicine” is helping some students survive the bottom of the hospital pecking order

The deadline to be the next StudioAMWA's Artist in Residence
is March 3rd!!!

The Artist in Residence Award was started in 2015 by Studio AMWA to promote women members in the arts. The role of the artist in residence is to create an artistic project that is pertinent to AMWA and women in medicine. This art will then be displayed (or performed) at the following year’s annual meeting.

This application is open to all member artists including painters, visual artists, sculptors, poets, writers, musicians, filmmakers, dancers, designers, comedians, puppeteers, tailors, or any other art form.

Please submit the following to [email protected]:
-Letter of intent (pdf)
-Resume (pdf)
-Artist statement (400 word limit – pdf)
-4-5 images/ video of your art

Visit website for more information:
https://www.amwa-doc.org/studioamwa/artist-in-residence/

Artist in Residence

We are so very excited to reveal this year's edition of Body Electric, our medical student-edited literary arts journal!

Click here to read: https://joom.ag/YlaW

Body Electric | Spring 2017 Body Electric | Spring 2017 Body Electric is a medical student-edited literary arts journal from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago.

Save the date for this year's Joseph S. Begando lecture!

What: Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
When: Thursday, 02/23/2017 at 4pm
Where: Moss Auditorium

What Doctors Can Learn From Looking at Art Art can help physicians become more thoughtful and meticulous observers — a skill that lays the foundation for good medicine.

Body Electric, the College of Medicine Literary Arts Journal, is now accepting submissions!!!

1.) Email [email protected] with your work attached:
-poetry (1 page max)
-reflective pieces (2-3 pages max)
-photography
-art/sketches/paintings
2.) Use Times New Roman 12 for written pieces
3.) Title your attachment the same as your piece
4.) In the email heading, put your name and year (e.g. Victor Macrinici M2)

Please submit by December 31st!

HEKTOEN INTERNATIONAL: A journal of medical humanities

We invite you to participate in the Fifth Hektoen Essay Competition! The Hektoen Grand Prix will be for an article of no more than 1600 words and the winner will receive $1,600. A second prize of $600 will be awarded for a Hektoen Brief of no more than 600 words. Please view the competition guidelines for further details.

Fifth Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition Competition guidelines Fifth Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition We invite youto participate in the Fifth Hektoen Essay Competition and submit your contribution by February 1, 2017. There will be two prizes. The Hektoen Grand Prix will be for an article of no more than 1600 words and the winner

Study break! COM Artists had a fantastic time making ceramics at Firehouse Art Studio tonight!