Both the UNM Health Sciences Center and the broader New Mexico health and wellness community are experiencing an historic period—one that will be a topic of future research and scholarship. This project and the Reflections contained within have have been designed to document this experience for future scholars.

Participation

The growing coronavirus pandemic and the global efforts underway to stop its spread have greatly impacted life at the University of New Mexico, and the state more broadly, in ways that were previously unimaginable. In an effort to document this significant and unique period, the UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center invites HSC students, staff, faculty, and alumni, as well as New Mexicans from all specters of the health and wellness community (providers, leaders, and citizens) to share their experience through any of the following means:

• Written journal, diary, or log (daily, every other day, or weekly entries)
• Photo essay
• Video or audio piece (e.g. an oral history)
• Zine

Ready to be part of the historic record? Click here to submit! See below for some helpful prompts to help you create.

Submissions of original photographs can be made to our COVID-19 Community Gallery.

General Rules for Submission

• You must be 18 years of age or older.
• You are submitting your own reflections, or if you are submitting on behalf of someone else you have received their permission.
• You are not sharing information about individuals, particularly patients, without their expressed consent.
• The work submitted does not contain any protected health information, and if it does, the required UNM-HSC Authorization and Release for the use and/or Disclosure of Protected Health Information for Marketing and Communications is completed and submitted.

Project Prompts

You may choose to document your experience in one day, maintain a diary for several weeks, create reflections once a week, record yourself talking about it with another person—it's up to you. We want to get a sense of how the HSC and New Mexico health and wellness community is coping, surviving, and thriving throughout this period. The following prompts may help guide your process:

HSC Students

• Name, Academic Year, Areas of Study and other Campus Involvement
• What did you do over Spring Break? Did you have to change plans in any way?
• How did you hear that you were being encouraged not to return to campus? What was your immediate reaction?
• Share your experience/s with online learning. Has it been a challenge?
• How have you discussed COVID-19 with your family, friends, and professors?

HSC Staff, Faculty, Researchers, and Clinicians

• Share your experiences with online teaching. Has it been a challenge for anyone?
• Where are you physically located now? If on campus at HSC or at another academic location, what is it like being here/there at this time?
• Are you able to work from home? How has the transition affected you and your family?

New Mexico's Health and Wellness Community

• What is your geographic location in New Mexico? What have you observed that is unique about where you live?
• What unique approaches to healthcare or wellness have you either implemented or observed in your community?
• Are you able to work from home? How has the transition affected you and your family?

For Everyone

• How has your routine changed?
• How do you keep in touch with friends? Has anything changed?
• What are your news sources? How do you find out about what’s happening at UNM and across New Mexico?
• Daily check-in with feelings, thoughts, activities.
• How do you envision the future of healthcare in the state of New Mexico?