What's the connection between the arts and medicine? The arts can be used in medicine and in medical education and practice in many forms to help foster the fundamental qualities of human caring such as the study of and application of ethics in practice, opening up new approaches and opportunities for respectful and open human communication between healthcare professionals and patients and patients and their caregivers, creating new ways and places for healthcare professionals to express and be witnessed in their own experiences and emotions related to their work, encouraging empathic practice and facilitating new ways for students and professionals to learn about their patients and identify with their health conditions and in seeking to apply the arts in multiple forms in medicine to help care for the caregivers themselves.
