From Kiss My Echo by The Clod Ensemble, 2001.
COURSES
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• The Art of Medicine and Healthcare
• The Expressive Body
• How Do I Look
• The Recovery Room
• Survival Guide to Working
in Healthcare
The Art of Medicine and Healthcare
The Art of Medicine and Healthcare is an intensive course for medical students which examines the uses of arts in medicine and healthcare. The course comprises of a series of practical workshops and tutorials led by cutting edge contemporary artists and provides an opportunity to take a step back from clinical studies and look at medicine from a different perspective.
You do not need to be great artist or in fact have any prior knowledge of arts to get something out of this course.
Students are introduced to a range of subjects through different art forms – you may spend the day working with a photographer thinking about the ways we interpret images and see people, or with an architect examining how hospital design may impact on health. You may learn about the brain in a sculpture class or about anatomy in a yoga lesson. Even though you may find yourself in a room with a theatre director, we will not be teaching you how to ‘act’ but simply how to feel more at ease with patients and colleagues .
Every student is given expert help on how to give presentations – getting a rare chance to address any personal habits, shyness or self consciousness that you feel may be holding you back.
You will also get a chance to visit some of the most exciting arts in health projects happening in London.
At the end of the course you will be asked to imagine your own arts in health project and assess how it could potentially affect medical outcomes or the patient’s experience of healthcare . Students will be assessed not only on WHAT they present but on HOW they present it. Past students presentations include: a lighting project to reduce stress in waiting rooms, a singing project in a speech therapy unit, a ceiling art project in a back pain unit, and a music project in a stroke clinic.
Student Comments:
'I've always hoped that I will go on to become a good doctor not a cold one. And I think that these ten days have helped me to appreciate what I can do and what I can avoid doing in order to be a good doctor'
‘Exciting, thought provoking and creative’
‘This isn’t just about us being doctors, it goes beyond that, it’s about us being people'