Digital Essays as a Form of Health Storytelling

Students in my HMN370: Medicine and the Humanities class produced videos as their final project. This was a group project in which students chose a topic relevant to the class content that explores a question related to health and presented their arguments in a creative way. Students embraced their interests and skills to create stories about social determinants of health, chronic pain, CRISPR technologies, and healing spaces in various format, such as news coverage, comics, and more. The final exam included a collective watch party of all the videos with a short Q&A sessions where students could share their creation process and achievements.