Evidence Based Studies on Arts & Humanities in Medical Education

It is widely acknowledged that Arts & Humanities courses in medical education enhance the skills of health care professionals. See below references to evidence based studies on this subject.

• Med Educ. 2006 Mar;40(3):263-8.
  Training the clinical eye and mind: using the arts to develop medical students' observational and pattern recognition skills.
  Shapiro J, Rucker L, Beck J. 
   
• J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Jul;23(7):991-7.
  Formal art observation training improves medical students' visual diagnostic skills.
  Naghshineh S, Hafler JP, Miller AR, Blanco MA, Lipsitz SR, Dubroff RP, Khoshbin S, Katz JT.  Harvard Medical School, Medicine Education Office, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
   
• Nurse Educ Pract. 2008 May;8(3):156-64. Epub 2007 Jul 12.
  Windows and mirrors: reflections of a module team teaching the arts in nurse education.
  McKie A, Adams V, Gass JP, Macduff C.
  School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Robert Gordon University, Garthdee Campus, Aberdeen, AB10 9QG Scotland, United Kingdom. a.mckie@rgu.ac.uk
  
• JAMA Vol 286, No 9, Sept 5 2001, 3 yr randomized trial.
  Use of Fine Art to Enhance Visual Diagnostic Skills.
  Jacqueline Dolev
  
• Journal of General Internal Medicine, July 2008, 23(7)991-997
  dio 10.1007/S//606-008-0667-0 online article)
  
• Medical Education 2011: 45: 141-148
  dio:10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03848x
  The effectiveness of arts-based interventions in medical education: a literature review

• The Journal of the American Medical Association (AMC)  the Academic Medical Center in the Netherlands - Art Book

Arts in Medical Education

Many medical schools provide Arts & Humanities programmes as part of students' medical education. 

Yale School of Medicine, in partnership with Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven - The Patient-Doctor Relationship

London School of Medicine & Dentistry, and School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University led by the Clod Ensemble Theatre Company of London - Performance Medicine*

Harvard Medical School, in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Art of Observation

Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA - Beauty and Treatment

University of Pittsburgh, PA USA - Art & Medicine

Mt Sinai School of Medicine, NY USA in collaboration with the Carnegie and Warhol museums, students examine artworks and apply the art of looking - Art of Observation

Tulane Medical School, New Orleans, LA USA - Art of Observation, Art & Medicine

Cornell University, Weill Medical School, Ithaca, NY USA in association with the Frick Collection

Dalhouise University, Canada Dalhouise's Medical Humanities Program