The Human Element: A Series in the Healing Arts. This series of sessions focuses on storytelling, narrative, visual arts, music therapy, theatre, presence, and other medical and humanities topics, taught by professional artists and healthcare professionals who practice art.
Looking at Art: A Way Into Seeing Patients and Self. This course aims to build a variety of related and essential skills that physicians need — including observation skills, interpersonal and communication skills, active listening, and collaborative problem-solving — by looking at art and engaging in facilitated discussions that make meaningful experiences of looking at art.
Serious Play: Learning From Improvisational Theatre to Deepen Therapeutic Connections & Collaboration in Medical Settings. Based on the principles of improvisational theatre, this selective offers an opportunity to develop new skills to deliver humanistic patient care, connect with peers and experience a creative approach to self-care.
Where I’m From: The Hospital as a Microcosm. Through an interdisciplinary approach, melding literature, research, anthropology and personal experiences, this course provides learners with critical and reflexive thinking and analysis tools to support building deeper cultural and structural understanding of healthcare disparities and social justice in medicine.
Poetry in Medicine. This selective explores the relationships between poetry and medicine, both historical and contemporary, and the importance of pathos-based relationships between medical professionals and patients.
Additional opportunities. Some additional staff- or student-led activities and selectives are available. Examples include Medical Humanities Reading, Clinic Notes and Medical Illustration.
