Forging a New Alliance: Engaging High School Students in the Health Humanities through Special Collections and Archives
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Conference or Event
ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group Friday Forum
Document Type
Presentation
Date
11-1-2024
Abstract
Health Humanities have been shown to improve observation and listening skills, increase empathy, and build tolerance to ambiguity. They can offer healthcare providers a means to connect and understand patients and provide a healthy self-care outlet to build resiliency and prevent burnout. Introducing the health humanities to students before they begin their intensive university studies and health-oriented careers could further future participation in health humanities. High School Alliance (HSA) is a pipeline program for Omaha-area public school juniors and seniors interested in a health sciences career to take classes from UNMC faculty. Since Spring 2022, the UNMC McGoogan Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives (SCA) faculty have designed, taught, and refined this course for students to utilize SCA rare books, archival material, and artifacts to create individual research papers, presentations, and a group exhibit project. Collaborating with SCA faculty, experts in graphic medicine and narrative medicine, and UNMC clinical faculty in delivering the course provides health sciences students a combination of science and humanities pedagogies and to see how both are critical for health sciences professions. Art, poetry, narrative medicine, graphic medicine, philosophy, and history were utilized by SCA faculty and guest speakers. Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss safe usage practices of primary source SCA materials for in-person and online instruction by high school students. 2. Discuss lessons learned from pre-Covid, during-Covid, and post-Covid instruction for both instructor practice and student expectations and outputs. 3. Discover ways that interacting with high school students interested in health sciences careers can be replicated, benefitting the academic institution, library, and local school system.
Recommended Citation
Meyer, Carrie and Torell, Erin J., "Forging a New Alliance: Engaging High School Students in the Health Humanities through Special Collections and Archives" (2024). Posters and Presentations: Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library. 19.
https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/mcgoogan_pres/19