Dr Andrew Schuman

Project Partner: Dr Andrew Schuman
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Dr Andrew Schuman
General Practitioner (Family Doctor) Partner at 19 Beaumont Street, Oxford, and a Clinical Tutor, University of Oxford Medical School

Andrew combines his medical work with literary interests, and has been teaching literature to GP (General Practice) Registrar groups as well as Medical Students for the past fifteen years. Andrew writes poetry, and was shortlisted for the 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. He co- founded with Sophie Ratcliffe the TORCH Wellcome funded workshop initiative, The Poetry of Medicine, and also acts as an advisor for Re-Lit, The Bibliotherapy Foundation, a charity that promotes the reading of literature as part of a toolkit for wellbeing (recent activities include workshops with war veterans at Tedworth House (Help for Heroes), with prisoners at HM Grendon, and in various schools).

Preferred Contact

andrewschuman@doctors.org.uk

Location

Based in

United Kingdom

Working in

United Kingdom

Areas of interest in VBP

Education, Communication skills, Medical humanities/literature, Primary care, Secondary Care, Well-being

Related areas of interest

Publications

For ‘Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind’, an anthology/handbook of poetry edited with Sophie Ratcliffe


‘Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind’, an anthology/handbook of poetry edited with Sophie Ratcliffe, see: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stressed-Unstressed-Classic-Poems-Ease-ebook/dp/B015VY1JAE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1450784410&sr=1-1&keywords=stressed+unstressed


Read More

The Poetry of Medicine


www.lit-med.com


Re-Lit, The Bibliotherapy Foundation:


http://www.relit.org.uk/who-we-are


Literature and Mental Health: Reading for Wellbeing


Andrew is one of the advising doctors on a free online course, produced with the Warwick Business School, on ‘Literature and Mental Health: Reading for Wellbeing’, see: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/literature