Abstract
For many centuries science and art have been studied as completely separate disciplines, and career paths likewise, have diverged. However, in recent years there has been a renewed cultural interest in art/science collaborations, coupled with the perception that a medical education which did not embrace the humanities 'tended to brutalize and dehumanize' (Weatherall, British Medical Journal 309 (1994) 1671-1672) future doctors. It was against this background of the growth of multi-disciplinary collaborative projects and a dissatisfaction with an 'incomplete' medical education, that an opportunity arose for a visual arts course to be set up at a London teaching hospital in 1999. The following dialogue sets out to explore the difficulties, the great joys and the emotions generated by a 'Special Study Module' created by both artists and clinicians.
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