Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD

Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. Using art museum-based education to humanize medicine from the inside out.

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Sign up for this longitudinal experience w/ Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Professionals (9/24/25 – 6/24/26, 12 select Wednesdays) includes guided application of the principles of VTS facilitation in
practice sessions. Approved for up to 48 hrs CME/CEUs from JHU SOM

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Our 3-day course in DC in December is ideal for any health professional wishing to learn & practice Visual Thinking Strategies facilitation skills - includes VTS co-developer Philip Yenawine as guest faculty #AMEE2025

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

3-day course in Beginners Principles & Practice of VTS for Health Professionals (in DC 12/10-12/25) includes daily opportunities to practice facilitating VTS & to receive feedback from certified coaches. Approved for 25.5 hrs CME/CEUs from JHU SOM. Email [email protected] for link

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

3-day course in Beginners Principles & Practice of VTS for Health Professionals (in DC 12/10-12/25) includes daily opportunities to practice facilitating VTS & to receive feedback from certified coaches. Approved for 25.5 hrs CME/CEUs from JHU SOM. Email [email protected] for link

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Hosted an amazing 3-hour preconference workshop on museum-based health professions education in the Moco Museum in Barcelona for #AMEE2025. Thanks to the museum staff & AMEE for making this happen and to all our wonder-full participants & facilitators from around the world.

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“Our ultimate goal is for students to experience the awe-some nature of medicine. It is an incredible privilege to encounter another human being in the midst of suffering and to offer that person hope and healing.” @whole_patients

https://t.co/qlPPhiPTjw

[@MedEdMustReads @MedEdMustReads]

This MUST READ explains why medical education would be bettter served by focusing on flourishing - instead of wellness. @SpringerNature @FlourishingAI @FlourishingLead @FlourishingConf @flourishingctr @GIMMedEdDoc @AAMCtoday @ameefacdev @AMEE_community
https://t.co/bckiLzhAwc

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

@BayouTheauxmist @HopkinsMedicine Hope all is well - and thanks for sharing!

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

New article about role of art museum-based to support flourishing of medical learners & physicians @HopkinsMedicine student Winnie Liu as first author!

https://t.co/GquMDjkqlg

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

2024 Barry Prize winner Nicholas Christakis offers great insights on social connection & contagion, & what universities might learn from his work! @AASL_Academy

[American Academy of Sciences and Letters @AASL_Academy]

Margaret Chisolm (Johns Hopkins) interviews Nicholas Christakis (Yale) about the vast scope of positive social behaviors we rely upon but mostly take for granted, and the need to defend the university's truth-seeking mission.

https://t.co/1tpfElSqBj

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

@Lee_InfraMind See a review of VTS in meded here https://t.co/yhvQF5D3KX

More to come

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Sign up for this longitudinal experience w/ Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Professionals (9/24/25 – 6/24/26, 12 select Wednesdays) includes guided application of the principles of VTS facilitation in
practice sessions. Approved for up to 48 hrs CME/CEUs from JHU SOM

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

@Lee_InfraMind Little research done on this in clinical settings but in other settings transfer of critical thinking & communication skills found & in medicine transfer of observation skills; we found stat significant increases in scales measuring capacity for wonder & tolerance for ambiguity

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

3-day course in Beginners Principles & Practice of VTS for Health Professionals (in DC 12/10-12/25) includes daily opportunities to practice facilitating VTS & to receive feedback from certified coaches. Approved for 25.5 hrs CME/CEUs from JHU SOM. Email [email protected] for link

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Looking forward to the holiday after active Spring season of teaching that took me to Vermont, Florida, Louisiana, UK, Canada, NC (twice), Taiwan, DC, Australia, Indiana, Texas, and NJ. Grateful for the opportunity to learn from the many people I met but now time to recharge.

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Sign up for this longitudinal experience w/ Visual Thinking Strategies for Health Professionals (9/24/25 – 6/24/26, 12 select Wednesdays) includes guided application of the principles of VTS facilitation in
practice sessions. Approved for up to 48 hrs CME/CEUs from JHU SOM

[The Bur Oak Foundation @miburoak]

Our meeting at Princeton with friends of Bur Oak was a great opportunity to recall some of our past academic initiatives. Especially memorable was the visual thinking strategies event in ‘22 ⁦@HSRdirector⁩ @whole_patients - DIA Meg Chisolm | Bur Oak https://t.co/GttpQQrW87

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

@miburoak @HSRdirector The event @DIAdetroit for @miburoak was a delight - many memorable moments from the planning & implementation of this 2-day experience.

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Still a few spaces left for Thursday’s event!

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Anyone who teaches at any @JohnsHopkins school is invited to register for our FREE 1-d course on Homewood campus & @artbma - sponsored by a Dialogue Innovations Fund award - to explore how arts-based pedagogy supports dialogue across differences. Space limited: [email protected]

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Only a few spots left for next week’s FREE all-day adventure in active learning. Register now

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

Anyone who teaches at any @JohnsHopkins school is invited to register for our FREE 1-d course on Homewood campus & @artbma - sponsored by a Dialogue Innovations Fund award - to explore how arts-based pedagogy supports dialogue across differences. Space limited: [email protected]

[Joseph Marine @DrJMarine]

Inspiring Paul McHugh lecture ⁦@HopkinsMedicine⁩ this evening given by Dr. Jim O’Connell on his 40-year career leading ⁦@BHCHP⁩ Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program. Look forward to the book! ⁦@whole_patients⁩ ⁦@PineStreetInn⁩

[Margaret “Meg” Chisolm, MD @whole_patients]

@DrJMarine @HopkinsMedicine @BHCHP @PineStreetInn Thank you for coming to Dr. O’Connell’s presentation. I am still thinking about its impact on me and hopefully all the students who attended!

[The Linacre Quarterly @TheLinacre]

Americans are divided and so is the Church. In our increasingly STEM-focused world, is it perhaps art that could act as a bridge? Dr. Margaret Chisholm, professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, argues in the affirmative

https://t.co/oJm8bNrYlL