John David Ike

Journal article J Grad Med Educ · June 2026 BACKGROUND: Empathy is vitally important in graduate medical education (GME) but may be difficult to sustain amid competing clinical, educational, research, and administrative demands. Medical humanities interventions may foster reflection and perspective- ... Full text Link to item Cite

Stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in intermediate-risk emergency department patients with abnormal high-sensitivity troponin.

Journal article J Cardiovasc Magn Reson · 2025 BACKGROUND: Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain often have abnormal high-sensitivity troponin (hsTn). However, only about 5% have an acute coronary syndrome. We aimed to assess the safety, feasibility, and utility of a clin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Understanding Breast Cancer Images in Art History as a Form of Health Communication.

Journal article J Health Commun · May 3, 2024 Can art and visual images meant for public consumption (museums, galleries, social media platforms) serve as a critical form of health communication for breast cancer patients? For their clinicians? For the population at large? Art history research methods ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association of Arts Event Attendance With Cognitive Function Among Older Adults Enrolled in the Health and Retirement Study.

Journal article Innov Aging · 2023 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Among the cognitively impaired, arts engagement is associated with improved neurocognitive symptoms. Less is known about arts engagement as a potentially modifiable lifestyle factor to prevent or slow cognitive decline. Our aim w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Quantitative metrics and psychometric scales in the visual art and medical education literature: a narrative review.

Journal article Med Educ Online · December 2022 The authors conduct a narrative review of the quantitative observation metrics and psychometric scales utilized in the visual arts and medical education literature in order to provide medical educators with a 'toolkit' of quantitative metrics with which to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Design, implementation, and reflections on a two-week virtual visual arts and medicine course for third- and fourth-year medical students.

Journal article BMC Med Educ · April 21, 2022 BACKGROUND: Medical humanities courses that incorporate the visual arts traditionally require in-person instruction and visits to museums. The COVID-19 pandemic afforded medical educators a unique opportunity to implement and evaluate virtual visual arts p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sophocles' Philoctetes and Moral Injury in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal article J Health Commun · February 1, 2022 Strong emotional responses of health-care professionals to the unusual stress of providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic may be consistent with the experience of moral injury. This term, originally used to explain the feelings of guilt, shame, and righ ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Art and Heart of a Community: Lamar Dodd's The Heart Series in LaGrange, Georgia.

Journal article J Health Commun · January 2, 2022 Lamar Dodd was a 20th century American artist, the long-term director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, and an arts advocate raised in LaGrange, Georgia. In the late 1970s after serving as a cultural emissary to the U.S. Departm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Carrying a Community on Their Shoulders: Virgil's Aeneas and the Duty of Healthcare Workers.

Journal article J Health Commun · May 4, 2021 The term "duty' has occurred frequently in discussions about the role of healthcare professionals in the current pandemic. Duty can take multiple forms in the professional and private worlds of those working to save the lives of others. At times, different ... Full text Link to item Cite

Face Masks: Their History and the Values They Communicate.

Journal article J Health Commun · December 1, 2020 Masks, now recommended and worn by a growing proportion of the world's population, have reflected various perceived meaning across time. This paper provides a brief history of the socio-cultural perceptions attached to wearing a mask by surveying how masks ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nurturing context: TRACE, the arts, medical practice, and health literacy

Journal article Information Services and Use · January 1, 2019 This article builds upon prior research on the interconnectedness of context to content as it relates to health and health literacy. The authors focus on the use of the arts as a novel way to engage with and to promote health and health communication. Most ... Full text Cite

The Association Between Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Hospital Case Volume and Mortality in a U.S. Cohort, 2002-2011.

Journal article Crit Care Med · May 2018 OBJECTIVES: This study examines the relationships between hospitals' annual acute respiratory distress syndrome case volume with hospitals' acute respiratory distress syndrome case fatality rates and individuals' odds of acute respiratory distress syndrome ... Full text Link to item Cite

Health Literary and the Arts: Exploring the Intersection

Journal article Studies in Health Technology and Informatics · January 1, 2017 Historically, study and implementation of health literacy mostly focused on text-based information with frequent attention to medical and health related content within an increasingly complex healthcare system. This chapter introduces visual literacy, part ... Full text Cite