It was one of five works they talked about in the Fine Art of Health Care workshop held in June. UM's Lowe Art Museum Medical students discussed the painting titled "Customs" by Hung Liu, 1995. These students were about to start clinical rotations where they'd learn from doctors in many specialties, such as internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery and psychiatry. She guided a group of third-year medical students from the Miller School of Medicine in downtown Miami. Each group had a volunteer from the museum to help steer the conversation, which Torrents also does. The 80 students were then divided into small groups of 10 to 12 people. They were there as part of UM’s annual patient safety week. In the June workshop, about 80 students wearing green scrubs and white lab coats gathered at the Lowe. “Art is a perfect tool to get people to look harder and think longer,” she adds. Torrents says conversations about art can be applied to people working in stressful, clinical environments. Residents spent more than 40 percent of the day in front of a computer. “It’s important for patients to connect with their health care practitioners and engage with them and to be heard.”Ī 2013 Johns Hopkins study showed that first-year medical residents spent 12 percent of their time interacting with patients. But I have been a patient and I have been a patient’s advocate,” she says. “I have no idea what it means to sort of step into the shoes of a doctor and nurse. Torrents hopes a visit to a museum can inspire a more humanistic generation of physicians. Hope Torrents, the Lowe’s school programs coordinator, calls these visits the Fine Art of Health Care. She runs the workshops, which began in 2008.
There, they discuss works of art in small groups and make connections to health care. Medical, nursing and physical therapy students at UM are supplementing their clinical training with visits to the Lowe Art Museum at the university’s Coral Gables campus.
The University of Miami is adding Baroque paintings and Greek vases to its diagnostic arsenal.
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