Seeing Art as Medicine
Registration Info Below-Numbers Limited
This 3-part seminar guides Medical Students and Residents in a
- * close observation of art,
- * group reflection, and
- * art-making
within the Art Gallery of Ontario’s collection, to let art tell us what we need to know about seeing, witnessing and engaging in the context of care.
The gallery allows objects and images to illuminate the doctor-patient relationship in ways the clinic can’t, giving us space to question and understand our roles with one another without the pressures to know, perform, or explain.
Goals
- * Foster cognitive skills, such as description and interpretation (and better understand the distinction between the two), critical thinking, and metacognition
- * Sharpen technical abilities such as close observation, diagnostic acumen, pattern recognition and the perception of non-verbal cues
- * Deepen interpersonal skills with both patients and colleagues, such as collaboration, social awareness and cultural sensitivity
- * Nurture humanistic qualities such as tolerance of ambiguity, creativity and self-reflection
- * Understand the role of embodied witnessing in the practice of medicine.
Presenter
Eva-Marie Stern, RP, MA, Assistant Professor U of T Dept of Psychiatry, is an art therapist, psychotherapist and educator. She co-founded WRAP in 1998 and the Trauma Therapy Program at Women’s College Hospital. Her chapter, co-authored with Shelley Wall, “The Visible Curriculum” appears in Health Humanities in Postgraduate Medical Education (Peterkin & Skorzewska, Eds, Oxford University Press, 2018), expands on how looking at and making art vitalize learning in medicine. She offers various art-based medical education initiatives in hospitals, museums and community studios.
Time and place
Wednesdays April 17 & 24 & May 1, 2019 from 6:30pm-8:30pm
Art Gallery of Ontario
Enrolment:
Open to all Residents, Medical Students, and Learners from other disciplines on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no cost for participation, but enrolment is required, and ATTENDANCE IS EXPECTED at ALL THREE seminar/workshops. No art experience is necessary. Entrance to the gallery and art supplies provided.
For more information and to sign up, please contact: allan.peterkin@utoronto.ca