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Artful Medicine: Art’s Power to Enrich Patient Care
Brown University
  • Start Date: 18 Jul, 2017
  • Self-Paced
  • Study Content: Videos


Discover how the medical community harnesses the power of art and empathy to improve patient care.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: 49.00 USD
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Introduction

Introduction Video

Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and Edx partnership.

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.


We will:



  • Explore elements of professionalism and humanism, why they are critical to patient care, and how they are threatened by technology that increasingly distances caregivers from patients;

  • Analyze art for form, narrative, and technique;

  • Practice techniques used by art educators to enhance observation and improve diagnostic skills;

  • Examine works of art for the professional behaviors they exemplify;

  • Apply techniques to patient care that will help humanize interactions, so caregivers can refocus their attention on patients and families and enhance their understanding of behaviors critical to healing; and

  • Identify with both the caregiver’s and the patient’s points of view.

Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

Brown University

Located in historic Providence, R.I., and founded in 1764, Brown University is an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution and the seventh-oldest college in the United States.

 

Brown is a leading research university where talented students and accomplished faculty collaborate to blend deep content knowledge across many disciplines to address the defining challenges of a complex and changing world. At the heart of the University’s teaching, research and scholarship is a commitment to academic excellence, intellectual freedom and making an impact to better serve people, communities and society.

 

The University is home to undergraduate and graduate programs plus the Alpert Medical School, School of Public Health, School of Engineering, and the School of Professional Studies.

 

 

As stated in the Principles of Brown University, Brown University strives "...for a sense of community in which the individual growth of all members is advanced through the cultivation of mutual respect, tolerance, and understanding. Brown University values and encourages individuality while also affirming the community dimensions of academic life. A socially responsible community provides a structure within which individual freedoms may flourish without threatening the privileges or freedoms of other individuals or groups.

 

The University is committed to honest, open, and equitable engagement with racial, religious, gender, ethnic, sexual orientation and other differences. The University seeks to promote an environment that in its diversity is integral to the academic, educational and community purposes of the institution."

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with Edx.

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