Funding Opportunities and Awards

The UCI Medical Education Award in Humanities and Arts will recognize those students who in the judgment of an appointed faculty committee have demonstrated exceptional contributions to the UCI School of Medicine community in the areas of the arts or humanities. MHAP works with the Office of Medical Education to recognize outstanding student contributions in medical humanities through the designation of graduation with distinction in the humanities/arts awarded annually to three or four meritorious graduating fourth-year students.

Schedule of applications: 

Thank you for your interest in the Medical Education Award in Medical Humanities and Arts. More information about this year's application will be available in January. Approximate annual timeline is listed below.

Early March: Please submit your nominations using the form below. Faculty and staff may nominate students for this award, and we also encourage self-nominations.
Mid March: Students will submit the remaining application package via Qualtrics. Please note that this award is only available for fourth-year graduating medical students. 
April: Awardees will be announced.

Please contact Dr. Juliet McMullin at mcmullij@hs.uci.edu for more details.

Nominate a student 

With generous support from the Medical Humanities and Arts Endowment Fund, MHAP provides opportunities for medical students to engage in a summer research project of their choice. This effort is aimed at encouraging scholarly pursuits in the growing field of medical humanities and its sub-disciplines, and to equip this generation of physicians with skills to better serve a diverse patient population with compassion, cultural humility and sensitivity to their stories.  

Eligible projects can explore a wide variety of topics, such as the history of medicine, literature or poetry in medicine, bioethics, the intersection of medicine and the visual or performing arts and more! For example, a humanities research project could involve textual analysis of writings by physicians and/or patients in the public domain. It could focus on an analysis of a particular turning point in the history of medicine, a treatise on a current bioethics dilemma, a study of graphic medicine comics, exploring improvisational theater’s potential for clinical medicine or interpreting examples of patient art.   

Schedule of applications: 

Early January: Call for submissions 
Late March: Submissions due 
Early May: Award recipients are announced 

Please contact Dr. Juliet McMullin at mcmullij@hs.uci.edu for more details. 

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