about performing medicine
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 behavior 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
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.
Workshops and courses for medical students are regularly delivered at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry as part of the enhanced curriculum; King’s College and Imperial College London.
We also provide professional development training, most recently at the Royal Society of Medicine and for Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
