Art as a tool in clinician education | London Arts in Health Forum

Art as a tool in clinician education | London Arts in Health Forum

introduction, Arts & Medicine Module, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

We designed and delivered an "Arts & Medicine", Experimental Practice, Choice Module in Feb - Mar 2014. This involved working with 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students from Contemporary Performance Practice, Acting, Musical Performance and Ballet, alongside patients attending day services at a hospice in Glasgow. We shared some of the methods we developed while working in various healthcare settings, and guided students to devise their own creative exchanges with patients at the hospice.

We used performance-based exercises, techniques adapted from Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's Viewpoints technique, group reflection and feedback, and general discussion to explore the issues, ethics and practice of working as an artist in this field.

rehearsals for Communicating Medical Materialities, Medical Museion, Copenhagen

In preparation for the workshop we were invited to give at Communicating Medical Materialities conference at the Medical Museion, we developed some of the exercises we had devised with material from our residency in the Neonatal Unit. We experimented applying the cut ups texts from interviews with parents, consultants and midwives to objects, (in this case a medical training baby doll) and furniture, and asked two friends to deliver these lines to each other, moving the objects as necessary and orientating themselves around the furniture, directing their voice and attention to the other person, each using breath as a meter.

 

One person applied cut up texts to the other person's body and then delivered these lines, using breath as a meter and moving the person's body when necessary.

The Drama of Medicine: All the Ward's a Stage, Association of Medical Humanities Annual Conference, Leicester

Kirsty presented a paper on our residency at the Neonatal Unit, called "Her Head is Turned Towards The Window" at 8th annual conference of the Association of Medical Humanities, "The Drama of Medicine - All The Ward's a Stage, University of Leicester. Our paper was presented under the theme, The Stage (settings and environments). Other themes includedDramatis personae (people) and Plays and Plots (stories).

"Creative Bonds": a practical performance-based workshop for 3rd year medical students, Special Studies Module, Glasgow Medical School.

On 14th June 2010 we gave a joint presentation with Dr. Madeleine White to third year Medical students at the University of Glasgow as part of their module in the Medical Humanities. This was followed by a half day practical performance-based workshop. workshop outline:-

Aim:

Explore communication, non-verbal communication, behaviour and how we all subconsciously adapt and change behaviour in different situations.

Objectives:

· To heighten observation and non-verbal communication skills.

· To consider physical spatial relationships and how these influence how people behave.

· To explore embodied experience as a means of self and group reflection.

· To relate these experiences to experience of medical practice and working

Methods:

The use of practical exercises drawn from performance and improvisation exercises and group critique, as developed through our own art practices.