Growing Visual Arts and Humanities Curriculum Finds a Home with Duke Medicine Residents
July 23rd, 2023
Liz Switzer
Integrating art and medicine to enhance clinical skills through visual arts and humanities
Duke University School of Medicine
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Medical schools across the country are increasingly incorporating visual arts and humanities programming into their curricula to address a variety of issues and skill sets that are relevant to clinical practice such as empathy, tolerance for ambiguity, and resiliency to burnout.
The Duke Department of Medicine has done so well with its visual arts and humanities curriculum for residents that it is now in its third year—and growing.
With the help of a Duke AHEAD grant for the 2023-24 academic year, the program is expanding to include all internal medicine residents at all stages of training in an integrated, three-year curriculum utilizing the visual arts to target key areas of professional development.
The program is headed up by Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellow Emory Buck, MD, rising 2024-25 chief resident for Duke University Hospital. Buck, a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Georgetown University School of Medicine, piloted the program in phases after she arrived at Duke as a resident in 2020.
Raised in an artistic environment, Buck has always found value in the humanities and particularly visual arts and humanities experiences. She is confident that more of her Duke colleagues will appreciate them, too.
The Duke Department of Medicine has done so well with its visual arts and humanities curriculum for residents that it is now in its third year—and growing.
With the help of a Duke AHEAD grant for the 2023-24 academic year, the program is expanding to include all internal medicine residents at all stages of training in an integrated, three-year curriculum utilizing the visual arts to target key areas of professional development.
The program is headed up by Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellow Emory Buck, MD, rising 2024-25 chief resident for Duke University Hospital. Buck, a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Georgetown University School of Medicine, piloted the program in phases after she arrived at Duke as a resident in 2020.
Raised in an artistic environment, Buck has always found value in the humanities and particularly visual arts and humanities experiences. She is confident that more of her Duke colleagues will appreciate them, too.
