Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
AMEE Glasgow 2023: Transforming health care education through inclusivity and innovation, Glasgow, İngiltere, 26 - 30 Ağustos 2023, cilt.1, ss.1175
I would like to take you on a journey within my experience with an ongoing series of art workshops designed and held for medical students.
Studies have shown that art activities within medical humanities 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.
This project is significant because medical students in their clinical training often face overwhelming emotional challenges in complex environments. Relatedly, the participants in this study were expected to make progress in terms of addressing their lives and feelings in clinical settings in depth, making sense of their own feelings, improving their reflective and narrative competence and establishing a professional identity.
Our journey highlights the results of the year-long Art Workshops project that involves 23 clinical period medical students. These volunteers were given painting and story creating classes by experts for 7 months, a period which was backed up with reflection sessions and one on one interviews with each participant. The art workshops project then was crowned with an exhibition of paintings and stories created by the participants. The exhibition took place in one of the most established state hospitals of the country and hosted medical students, faculty, health care staff and patients. The huge interest of the visitors in the exhibition as well as the accounts of the participants of the project illustrate their appreciation of such a project and the obvious need for artistic activities in medical schools.
This interactive and narratively flowing presentation will consist of excerpts from stories, poems written by the participant students as well as their paintings and drawings. Participants' reflective accounts that accompany the artistic products will also be shared.