how we work
The use of arts in medical training can be beneficial to all areas of medical practice - not just by creating a more effective and intelligent consulting room, but also by inspiring a new generation of researchers who will be working at the creative cutting edge of bio medical science.
Our work can be divided into three key areas:
Practical Skills
We offer courses and workshops which use theatre and movement techniques to improve presentation, observation and communication skills, focusing on the way participants move, speak, see, interpret and analyse. We encourage health workers to take care of themselves, developing the strength and stamina needed to meet the demands of their work.
Sessions include: Non-Verbal Communication Skills, Negotiating Power and Status, Voice, Touch, Experiential Anatomy, Ways of Seeing, Presentation Skillls, Team Building, Anatomical Art (Life Drawing).
Examining Cultural and Ethical
Issues Through Arts
These seminar and performance events interrogate cultural/ethical issues
relevant to healthcare through art and art projects. Work discussed ranges
from old masters such as Caravaggio, Vesalius and Rembrant, to medical
photography, to the pioneering work of Susan Sontag and Jo Spence, to
controversial contemporary artists such as Franko B. and Orlan. We use
these art works as a platform from which to explore current thinking about
issues relevant to medicine including: sexuality, ownership, control,
gender, cloning, the medical gaze, detachment and dissection.
Artists Working in Science and
Healthcare Settings
Workshops investigate how collaborations between artists and scientists/medics
may improve health care in terms of communication, environment, outlook,
public engagement, patient care and the advancement of knowledge.
Associate artists working in this field include: Deborah Padfield (Perceptions of Pain), Rosetta Life (Arts in Palliative Care), Bobby Baker (How To Live), Vital Arts (Arts in Hospital Settings).
Publications
The Uses of Arts in Medical Training,
Suzy Willson,
The Lancet,
Vol. 368,
Supplement 1, December 2006
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Medical Student Newspaper
December 2007 Edition
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