Abstract
A novel, student-organized event, the ‘Art in Healthcare’ interprofessional education symposium was held in November 2018 as the inaugural event hosted by the Windsor Interprofessional Health Student Collaboration. Students attending represented five different programmes of study and came from five different campuses, all in Ontario. The impetus for it was grounded in the existing landscape of interprofessional education and the use of narrative and artistic approaches to guide reflection on professional identity for health professionals. The structure of the symposium included a keynote address, workshops, and a closing ceremony. Pre- and post-symposium surveys were administered and filled out by students and helped to inform this reflection. Participants were given the space, time, and artistic tools to engage in critical thought about their past experiences as health care professional students. They used narrative and artistic approaches to express complex and difficult thoughts and ideas which helped to illuminate shared experiences and create shared awareness. Through reflection and conscious decisions regarding representation of ideas through alternative artistic media, students explored their feelings and identities. The ‘Art in Healthcare’ symposium introduced new tools and methods for health professional students to engage in critical reflection, providing many benefits for students and their patients alike.
Highlights
Interprofessional education (IPE) is a critical component of professional health education, as achieving competency in interdisciplinary teamwork is an important foundation to effective health care.[1,2] Competency domains for effective IPE have been developed and full-day curricular events are an established model for introducing these competencies to students.[1]
While students from these schools participate in an annual IPE day as part of their formal curricula, students of Windsor Interprofessional Health Student Collaboration (WIHSC) were keen to engage in further collaborations.[1]
The Art in Health care” (AIH) symposium introduced new tools and methods for health professional students to engage in critical reflection and provided many benefits for students and their patients alike
Summary
Interprofessional education (IPE) is a critical component of professional health education, as achieving competency in interdisciplinary teamwork is an important foundation to effective health care.[1,2] Competency domains for effective IPE have been developed and full-day curricular events are an established model for introducing these competencies to students.[1]. The process of converting a personal experience into a hand-drawn comic challenged participants to reflect on the key elements of why this was a difficult encounter and make conscious decisions about how to portray this in visual form Another image-based storytelling workshop, led by keynote speaker Lisa Boivin, challenged participants to reflect on their own professional identities by attempting to represent themselves visually through drawing. Erik Mandawe of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, a medical student (Schulich, Class of 2021) and the Artist-in-Residence for the city of London, spoke about his reflections from the day and the inspiration for his own artistic practice His closing address, entitled Seeing Yourself in the Land, challenged students to explore and reflect on their own relationships with place and people while relating this to their professional identity and the relationships they will develop with their patients
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