Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Conference on Advances in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities (ICASSEH), İstanbul, Türkiye, 20 - 22 Eylül 2024, ss.1
Medical students often face overwhelming emotional challenges in complex clinical training environments. Studies have shown that art activities can positively impact medical students' emotional well-being by fostering mindfulness, empathy, and creativity. As artistic encounters are known to trigger seminal developments both individually and socially, relevant activities of several kinds like museum visits, workshops and electives have been in curricula at medical schools for a few decades. However, extended art education is a rare experience in medical training. In this regard an art workshops program including story formation and painting was designed and held by the help of experienced specialist for an academic year with the participation of 23 clinical period medical students. This fully qualitative study reveals the emotional effects of this long term art involvement on its participants. As expected, in the in depth interviews it was found out that the participants made progress in terms of addressing their lives and feelings in clinical settings, making sense of their own feelings, improving their reflective and narrative competence and establishing a professional identity.