Abstract
MedEdPublish (ISSN 2312–7996) is a highly visible, open access, specialist practitioner e-journal that enables academics, teachers, clinicians, researchers and students to publish their experiences, views and research findings relating to teaching, learning and assessment in medical and health professions education. An innovative and key feature of MedEdPublish is that the peer review process begins following publication.
Highlights
Over the centuries, the idea that medicine is an art, and that a doctor is – or should be – a kind of artist, has been often repeated
Our findings suggest that art making programs can provide an important extension to traditional medical humanities curricula
This paper reports on a pilot study of what medical students valued in creative art experiences, which were a component of an innovative remote training program, conducted in rural NSW, Australia
Summary
The idea that medicine is an art, and that a doctor is – or should be – a kind of artist, has been often repeated. Said William Osler, is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability (LaCombe and Elpern, 2010). ‘The art and science of medicine are complementary. Can engaging with the creative arts support this objective? Medical humanities programs have expanded in medical schools around the world, and the creative arts have been slowly gaining a more prominent place within these. It is increasingly popular to take medical students on field trips to art galleries; (Bardes, Gillers and Herman, 2001; Schaff, Isken and Tager, 2011) medical students not infrequently read play-scripts, novels, poems and short stories. Not all forms of creative art are integrated in medical education. Attending live music or theatre performances seems less common, and the avant-garde and community arts are rare, (Brodzinski and Munt, 2009; Bolaki, 2016) except for works that explore illness experiences
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