Monday, September 21, 2009

IJCAIP A Place for Physicians to Speak Out About Arts and Medicine

Almost to the finish line for the next issue of IJCAIP, The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice. It's expected the new issue will be accessible to subscribers at the website on or about October 25 at http://www.ijcaip.com. If you haven't heard about this creative arts/ interdisciplinary practice open access journal we suggest you visit the site and take a look. It's free for subscribers to access with an email to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com and you can also access issues as well as the archive back to March 2006. IJCAIP also runs a companion blog called "Arts Crossing Borders".

The next issue of IJCAIP "Arts in Medical Education, "Physicians Speak Out About Arts and Medicine" will feature a lead article by Martin Donohoe MD, FACP, Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Community Health at Portland University and Senior Physician, Internal Medicine, Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Centre, who writes about the values of using literature to help teach medical students about issues in public health and social justice. There will be comments from Jay Rosenfield MD, MEd, FRCPC, Vice- Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto as well as several other articles and commentaries in the next issue of IJCAIP from physicians actively using narrative, literature and poetry in medical education.

We will be featuring a section on story and narrative in the upcoming book, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change".

posted by: C. McLean, Publisher/Editor, IJCAIP, International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice
Editor, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change"