News at Eleven: Last spring, as part of a larger

collaboration, Yale University School of Medicine and University College London Medical School sponsored a poetry contest for their students. The judges, a panel of professors with expertise in medicine, the humanities or both, expected no more than a handful of entries.

They ended up with more than 160.

"We had underestimated the interest of medical students in poetry, their motivation to write a poem and the quality of their work" said Dr. John Martin, organizer of the competition and a professor of cardiovascular medicine at University College London.

from The New York Times: Well: The Doctor as Poet
then The New York Times: Well: Finding Poetry in Medicine

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