Performing Medicine - Arts in Medical Training
Performing Medicine is a unique programme of courses, workshops and events which use the arts to provide training to medical students and practising health professionals.
The project is based at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and is led by award winning performance company the Clod Ensemble in association with the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London.
Performing Medicine aims to inspire medics to be vital, rigorous, critically engaged, culturally aware doctors and give them skills to help them sustain a highly demanding work practice.
The project is based on the belief that engagement with arts can encourage:
• Creativity and agility of body and mind
• An awareness of the affect ones own behaviour has on others
• The ability to construct difficult questions and analyse information that has no simple solution
• A questioning of one’s own cultural and ethical assumptions
Winner of the Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation, 2007
We offer artist led, practical based programmes which:
• Use theatre, movement and the arts to help to improve the presentation and communication skills of health workers - taking
into account the way they move speak, look, interpret and communicate.
• Interrogate cultural/ethical issues relevant to healthcare through art and art projects.
• Investigate how collaborations between artists and scientists/medics may improve health care in terms of communication,
environment, outlook, public engagement, patient care and the advancement of knowledge.
Performing Medicine is the only initiative of its kind - unique because it is led by professional artists in collaboration with medical educationalists and health professionals. The project aims to create dialogue across disciplines, between the arts, humanities and medicine; across departments in universities; across institutions; and between artists, scientists and the general public.
Contact:
Suzy Willson: Honorary Senior Lecturer in Arts and Medicine and Project Director
suzy@clodensemble.com
Tel: 020 7749 0555
Jo Allan: Project Manager
Tel: 020 7749 0555