MEDIA AMWA: The Power of Film

This exhibition is part of AMWA’s growing interest in the medical humanities and the power of film as a tool for education and advocacy. The films below are relevant to AMWA’s work to improve healthcare, address healthcare disparities, promote gender equity,  and empower women. Click on the titles below to learn more.

Gallery of Films

Instructional Videos

Film Festivals

• American Public Health Association Film Fest
• Global Health Film Festival
• Milwaukee Film Minority Health Film Festival
• Public Health Film Festival
• Raw Science Film Festival
• Rare Disease Film Festival
• ReelAbilities Film Festival
• World Health Organization The Health for All Film Festival

Search for other film festivals at filmfreeway.com.

Making Films

Here are some resources for those who want to learn how to make films.

• New York Film Academy Student Resources
• sundance collab
• Making Films with a Smartphone

Resources

Articles

• Centenary of the Medical Film
• Cinemedicine: Using movies to improve students’ understanding of psychosocial aspects of medicine
• Cinemeducation: A pilot student project using movies to help students learn medical professionalism
• The Current Landscape of Television and Movies in Medical Education
• Literature and Movies for Medical Students
• Medicine and the Movies: Lorenzo’s Oil at century’s end
• Movies and Medicine: An Elective Using Film to Reflect on the Patient, Family, and Illness
• Moving Pictures and Medicine in the First Half of the 20th Century: Some Notes on International Historical Developments and the Potential of Medical Film Research
• A Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of Cinema in Medical Education
• Teaching Medical Ethics to First-year Students by Using Film Discussion to Develop Their Moral Reasoning
• Teaching Medical Humanities Through Film Discussions

Books

• Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television

Websites

• Medflix
• Stanford Program for Bioethics and Film
• National Library of Medicine Collection: Films and Videos

Programs related to films that are or have been accredited for CME:

• Caregiver: A Love Story
• Someone You Love
• Unrest

Upcoming Events:

Please check back!

Past Events:

• Film Screening: Rare (Feb. 26-28, 2022)
• My Mom and the Girl (Feb. 16, 2022)
• Far East, Deep South (May 23, 2022)
• Training Rules (Mar. 3. 2022)
• Fauci (Jan 7-14)
• 5B Screening and Panel Discussion (Dec. 6, 2021)
• Caregiver: A Love Story Screening and Q&A with Director/Producer (Nov. 18, 2021)
• Pay It No Mind (Nov. 17, 2021)

About Us

The idea for Media AMWA was conceived in 2018 as part of AMWA’s growing interest in the medical humanities. Film can be a powerful tool for both education and advocacy. In fact, films have been a regular feature of AMWA meetings, both nationally and locally. In 2017, AMWA collaborated with Raw Science Foundation to produce At Home and Over There: American Women Physicians in WWI and participated as a collaborator of the 2017 Raw Science Film Festival and a sponsor of the 2019 Raw Science Film Festival.

Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Laura Roebuck and the Xpu Foundation for making this exhibition possible. We hope that it will serve as a resource to highlight topics in medicine, health, and gender. We welcome recommendations of additional films to feature.

Project Leads:

• Emily Chen
• Mollie Marr
• Eliza Lo Chin, MD, MPH

Film Resources:

• Bessie Young

Student Researchers:

• Sukaina Alikhan
• Athena Barrett
• Rachel Chauvin
• Mallory Dameron
• Adria Stauber