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Division of Medical Humanities Division of Medical Humanities Research

Division of Medical Humanities Research

NYU Langone’s Division of Medical Humanities provides opportunities for trainees to pursue original research on medical humanities topics. Finished articles have appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and other prestigious publications.

Rudin Medical Ethics and Humanities Fellowship

The Rudin Medical Ethics and Humanities Fellowship is a part of the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine. The fellowship expands medical humanities and biomedical ethics education at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and encourages trainees to pursue research in this field. Division director David M. Oshinsky, PhD, co-directs this fellowship program.

Recent Publications

Medical Expertise - Balancing Science, Values, and Trust

Lerner, Barron H

New England journal of medicine. 2024 Aug 15; 391:577-579

The Tarnished Legacy of a Wonder Drug: Revisiting the Complicated History of Clozapine

Poudel, Roshan; Lerner, Barron

Harvard review of psychiatry. 2024 Jan-Feb 01; 32:40-46

The Autumn Ghost-The Danish Polio Epidemic of 1952 and the Birth of Intensive Care Medicine

Oshinsky, David

JAMA. 2023 Nov 28; 330:1937-1938

The art of seeing: The impact of a visual arts course on medical student wellbeing

Noorily, Ariella R; Willieme, Anne; Belsky, Mikaela; Grogan, Katie

Medical teacher. 2023 Aug ; 45:871-876

Unfinished symphony

Ofri, Danielle

Lancet. 2023 Jul 29; 402:364-365

Evidence over Politics - The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Lerner, Barron H; Curtiss-Rowlands, Graham

New England journal of medicine. 2023 Jan 05; 388:3-5

Why Was the US Preventive Services Task Force's 2009 Breast Cancer Screening Recommendation So Objectionable? A Historical Analysis

Lerner, Barron H; Curtiss-Rowlands, Graham

Milbank quarterly. 2022 Sep ; 100:702-721

What Constitutes Evidence? Colorectal Cancer Screening and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Lerner, Barron H; Curtiss-Rowlands, Graham

Journal of general internal medicine. 2022 Aug ; 37:2855-2860