symposium
THE USES OF ARTS IN MEDICAL TRAINING
21 November | 10am-6pm | £150 per delegate
Barts and The London School
of Medicine and Dentistry,
Turner Street, London E1 2AD
How can arts be used in medical training?
What can arts offer medical students to help them become confident, alert, rigorous, communicative, inspired doctors?
How can we measure the value of the arts or assess their impact?
What are the challenges and obstacles of working with arts in a medical school setting?
Academics, health practitioners and artists from around the UK are invited to discuss these topics and share experience. There will be talks, panel discussions, workshops, and performances as well as an opportunity to take part in a Long Table discussion - an open forum in which everyone gets a chance to have their say.
£150 per delegate | £75 concs (students and freelance artists)
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Contact us
| Tel: 020 7749 0555
Schedule
10am Registration and coffee
10.30-10.45am Welcome and Introduction
Suzy Willson Director of Performing Medicine
10.45-11.45am Perspectives
In this session 10 people will talk for 5 minutes giving their perspective on the uses of arts in medical training – we will hear perspectives from doctor, patient, student, artist, medical school, university, funding bodies, professional organisations etc. Speakers include:
The Medical Education Perspective
Professor Alan Bleakley (Deputy Director, Institute of Clinical Education, Peninsular Medical School)
The Funder’s Perspective
Anthony Woods (Head of Medicine, Society and History Grants, Wellcome Trust)
The Higher Education Perspective
Professor Morag Shiach (Vice Principal for Teaching and Learning, Queen Mary, University of London)
The Student Perspective
Performing Medicine student steering group (with students from Barts, Kings and Imperial)
The Artist Perspective
Sylvan Baker
Perspectives from The Arts Council, Patient Information Forum TBC
12noon-12.30pm Coffee Break
12.30-1.30pm Breakaway Workshops 1:
Practical Workshops and Discussions
Taster sessions introducing some of the ways arts are currently being used within medical education. Participants can choose from following:
Workshop One: Perceptions Of Pain
Artist Deborah Padfield talks about her award-winning project developed with consultant Dr Charles Pither, the medical Director of INPUT Pain Unit at Guy's, which uses photography to search for a visual language for pain.
Workshop Two:
Difference
Internationally renowned performance artist Peggy Shaw will introduce you to ideas of difference, especially in relation to sexuality. What assumptions do we make about other people’s bodies?
Workshop Three:
Poetry and Medical Practice
Andy Brown: Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Exeter
In this creative writing workshop, you will be encouraged to play with language to explore both medicine and the body as subject matters for poetry and consider some ways in which medicine itself may involve aesthetic practices, as a discipline that involves story-telling, interpretation, and forms of writing about bodies.
Workshop Four:
Movement
Niamh Dowling: Head of School of Theatre at Manchester Metropolitan University
This workshop introduces the central principles of the Alexander Technique and develops them into movement, voice, transformation and performance as required. Niamh will start with the whole body and look at individual patterns of use in everyday life and in performance.
Workshop Five:
Forum Theatre (Title TBC)
Sylvan Baker, Freelance Theatre Consultant
Workshop Six:
Photography and Film
Helen Marshall, Artist
1.30–2.30pm Lunch (buffet in Old Library)
2.30-2.45pm Performance of an extract from:
Ball by Brian Lobel
Far from the world of yellow bracelets and pink ribbons, Ball is the story of a young man and his quirky and unique struggle against cancer. This irreverent, honest and witty one-man show challenges the Lance Armstrong 'inspirational' cancer narrative to reveal the sperm bank, the catheters, and the hair loss in all their glory.
3-4pm Breakaway Workshops 2:
Practical Workshops and Discussions
Choice of practical workshops as above or the two following discussion groups:
Group One:
Models of Working -
Getting arts into the medical curriculum
In this session we will look at different models of using arts within the medical curriculum and address some of the challenges involved in working with arts within a medical institution.
The Panel:
Professor Brian Hurwitz (Professor of Art and Medicine, Kings College London), Michelle Cussens (Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Kings College London),
Professor Alan Bleakley (Peninsular Medical School),
Giskin Day (Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Imperial Medical School), Suzy Willson (Director, Performing Medicine, Barts and the London).
Group Two:
Evaluation – How can we prove it works?
In this session we will look at different models of evaluation – how can we present a convincing argument to medical schools that arts can become a key teaching methodology rather than a luxury? What are the most useful models of evaluation? Whose agenda does the evaluation need to address?
The Panel:
Anneliese Graham (Project Manager, Performing Medicine),
Richard Ings (Freelance arts evaluator),
remaining panel TBC.
4.15pm Afternoon tea
4.30-5.30pm Long Table Discussion facilitated by Lois Weaver
An open forum for people to feedback on their day and raise any pertinent issues.
5.30-6pm Networking and drinks with performance of an extract from:
Must – The Inside Story
A
collaboration between Peggy Shaw and The Clod Ensemble.
