Health Humanities Fellow

Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards package supporting health and retirement

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore offers a one-year Health Humanities fellowship aimed at Emergency Medicine physicians. The program equips graduates with skills for leadership in education and scholarship, emphasizing health equity and social justice. Candidates must be Board Eligible or Board Certified in Emergency Medicine, with a demonstrated engagement in Health Humanities.

The fellowship combines didactics, mentorship, and experiential learning to foster essential skills required for leadership in health professions.

Qualifications

• Applicants must hold Board Certification or eligibility in Emergency Medicine.
• Demonstrated engagement with scholarship or research in Health Humanities.
• Advanced degrees related to health humanities are preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Participate in a one-year-long fellowship focusing on Health Humanities.
• Engage with didactic and experiential learning in clinical settings.
• Contribute to scholarship, research, and advocacy in Health Humanities.

Skills

Engagement with scholarship in Health Humanities

Experience in narrative medicine

Creative writing

Medical anthropology

Medical sociology

Bioethics

Arts-based education

Education

Board Eligible or Board Certified in Emergency Medicine

Job description

General Description

The Health Humanities fellowship is a one-year-long program designed to provide Emergency Medicine physicians with an in-depth understanding of the core foundational principles of the Health Humanities as applied to clinical care, health professions education, and scholarship, with an emphasis on how the Health Humanities may pertain to health equity and social justice. This fellowship, the first of its kind, is especially timely and relevant - the humanities have been recognized as tools of pedagogy, advocacy, expression, and critique necessary to advancing health equity, and have been deemed crucial to health professions training by national healthcare organizations. However, opportunities for targeted advanced faculty development or graduate medical education training in these fields are limited. Through a combination of didactics, experiential learning and application, and mentorship within the existing frameworks, resources, and leadership of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (CMHSM) and Health Humanities at Hopkins Emergency Medicine (H3EM), the ultimate goal of the fellowship is to equip the graduate with the skills necessary to become a nationally recognized leader in education, scholarship, research, and/or advocacy as relevant to the Health Humanities as applied to the Health Professions.

Qualifications

Applicants must be Board Eligible or Board Certified in Emergency Medicine from a U.S. Emergency Medicine training program. Special consideration may be given to Board Eligible or Board Certified non‑Emergency Medicine graduates. They must be in good standing with the academic faculty of origin.

Applicants must demonstrate preexisting engagement with scholarship, research, or education in the Health Humanities including, but not limited to, the fields of narrative medicine, creative writing, history of medicine, medical anthropology, medical sociology, bioethics, visual arts, performing arts, and arts‑based education.

Experience may be demonstrated by scholarly or creative publications or projects, engagement with curriculum development or education in the humanities for health professions trainees, or advanced degrees relevant to the health humanities (degrees are not a pre‑requisite or requirement).

Salary Range

The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate’s geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

Total Rewards

Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees’ health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Johns Hopkins University is committed to equal opportunity for its faculty, staff, and students. To that end, the university does not discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. The university is committed to providing qualified individuals access to all academic and employment programs, benefits and activities on the basis of demonstrated ability, performance and merit without regard to personal factors or demographic characteristics that are irrelevant to the program involved.