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.
Submit Your Film for Consideration
Gallery of Films
Instructional Videos
Film Festivals
American Public Health Association Film Fest
Milwaukee Film Minority Health Film Festival
World Health Organization The Health for All Film Festival
Search for other film festivals here.
Making Films
Here are some resources for those who want to learn how to make films.
Resources
Articles:
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
A Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of Cinema in Medical Education
Teaching Medical Humanities Through Film Discussions
Books:
Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television
Websites:
Stanford Program for Bioethics and Film
National Library of Medicine Collection: Films and Videos
Programs related to films that are accredited for CME:
Upcoming Events:
Coming soon!
Past Events:
5B Screening and Panel Discussion (Dec 6)
Caregiver: A Love Story Screening and Q&A with Director/Producer (Nov. 18)
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
