Arts and Humanities in Health Professions

Resource Bundle for the Arts and Humanities in Health Professions Education

By integrating arts and humanities throughout health professions education, trainees can learn to be better observers and interpreters; and build empathy, communication and teamwork skills, and more. This guide provides resources to help educators start, develop and/or improve the use of arts and humanities in their teaching.

The Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education

This AAMC report provides an in-depth overview of the role arts and humanities play in educating a physician workforce to meet 21st-century health care needs.

FRAHME Getting Started Guide

Activities for educators who are new to incorporating arts and humanities into their teaching. Explore by artform, competency, or topic.

Arts & Humanities Webinars

View recordings of past webinars sponsored by the FRAHME initiative.

How Are the Arts and Humanities Used in Medical Education?

This article provides a scoping review of the published literature on the use of arts and humanities in medical education.

The Prism Model

This model guides educators in considering different approaches to teaching through the use of arts and/or humanities, depending on their objectives.

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Activity Ideas from the Getting Started Guide

Film: Keepers of the House

This 15-minute film features environmental service workers at Duke Hospital talking about their contributions to healing. Accompanied by a lesson plan, facilitator's guide, discussion questions and a list of suggested reading.

Exercises and Readings for Narrative Medicine Groups

This resource outlines general writing prompts as well as those that can be completed after reading a recommended short piece of literature as a group.

Dance Performance: Resilience

This resource provides two lesson plans to help medical students examine the non-verbal communication and body language of the caregiver, patient and doctor in an Indian dance performance.

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