Humanism in Medicine

Student Organizations Dublin

Our Mission

Humanism in Medicine is a group of OU-HCOM students, as well as supportive and interested faculty and staff contributors that work to promote the exploration of life and all of its beauty, while working towards a greater level of compassion and understanding for all individuals. Our goal is to recognize the continuity of art and medicine in a literal sense by providing outlets of creativity and organizing events that benefit our OUHCOM and local communities. Through the inspiration of art, literature, and music, along with acts of kindness, we hope to celebrate ourselves and others for the qualities that make us uniquely human.

 Dues: $10 annually

Services Provided

Humanism in Medicine provides service to the HCOM community through a yearly publication of the magazine "Art in Medicine" as well as multiple events throughout the year highlighting the value and creativity of each human person at our school. Finally, our Random Acts of Kindness committee (RAK) is available for interested students who display a special interest in spreading compassion and grace to our campus community through random and often anonymous acts of kindness.

Tentative Schedule for 2023-2024

Humanism in Medicine is associated with Gold Humanism Honor Society. Membership in this group shall be open to all who are interested and are willing to pay a local membership fee of $10 as well as attend meetings and events as scheduled. Potential events shall include: 

•    ‘I beleaf in you’ Fall Exam Encouragements, 
•    Halloween mini treat bags
•    Thanksgiving –‘turkey gram’ gratitude cards
•     ‘Hugs for hot chocolate’ in the winter 
•     ‘Words of Encouragement’- started this during the pandemic, it is a digital initiative for which we were awarded an Outstanding Programming Award by the university 
•     St. Patrick’s Day/March – candy ‘pot of gold’ guessing game
•     ‘Seeds of hope’ Spring gardening activity