by Dr Megan Brown and Dr Stephanie Bull
A team at the Medical Education Innovation & Research Centre (MEdIC) have been working on bringing creative enquiry into the MBBS curriculum. Dr Megan Brown, Dr Stephanie Bull, and Dr Reem Moussa have co-created a Student Selected Component for medical students entitled “Exploring experiences in medicine through the creation of the arts” which will run this academic year 2022/23.
This SSC builds on research more broadly within MEdIC which focuses on the impact of the creation of arts, and on a workshop recently presented by Megan at the Association of Medical Education (AMEE) international conference, on the topic of creative enquiry and flourishing within medical education.
The SSC will engage medical students actively in making art, by offering them opportunities to reflect on their lived experience of medical education using the art of others and create art of their own across diverse media (e.g., painting, drawing, sculpture, poetry, music, dance etc.).
Students will be prompted to consider how the experience of creating art might inform their development or practice as a clinician. The team have shared images of the art they’ve created (across digital, written, and illustrated formats) as a way of beginning a conversation surrounding the joy and possible role of creating art within medical education.