Course description
Artful Medicine: Art’s Power to Enrich Patient Care
What impact can art and the humanities have on patient care? Can art enhance medical caregivers’ powers of observation and humanize their interactions with patients? Through presence alone, can caregivers heal what they cannot cure?
In Artful Medicine: Art’s Power to Enrich Patient Care, we will explore the meaning of medical professionalism, techniques for a humanistic approach to caregiving, and the positive impact of humanism on clinical outcomes.
By looking closely at works of art that portray empathy in human interaction, caregivers can discover their common humanity with patients. Caregivers can also hone observation skills that help paint a portrait of a patient as a person and not a collection of symptoms, lab tests, and scans. Through presence at the patient’s side, unmediated by technology, a caregiver can make the patient feel cared for in addition to being treated.
One needn’t be a caregiver to benefit from this course—though all of us have probably been cared for at some point and can therefore easily relate to the importance of a humanistic approach to caregiving. Anyone interested in how art can be used to enhance observational and empathic skills will find this application to medical humanism fascinating.
Who should attend?
Prerequisites
None
Course delivery details
This course is offered through Brown University, a partner institute of EdX.
2-3 hours per week
Costs
- Verified Track -$49
- Audit Track - Free
Certification / Credits
What you'll learn
- Appreciate how the elements of humanism and professionalism in medicine are essential to patient care and can be defined, learned, and applied.
- Reflect on ways humanism and professionalism are under threat from electronic medical records and other technology.
- Analyze works of art for form, narrative, technique, and the professional behaviors they exemplify.
- Explore techniques that humanize interactions and enhance our understanding of what is critical to healing.
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