Tracy Moniz1, Maryam Golafshani2, Carolyn M Gaspar3, Nancy E Adams4, Paul Haidet5, Javeed Sukhera6, Rebecca L Volpe7, Claire de Boer8, Lorelei Lingard9. 1. T. Moniz is associate professor, Department of Communication Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5078-4611 . 2. M. Golafshani is a second-year medical student, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 3. C.M. Gaspar is a PhD candidate, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0412-5495 . 4. N.E. Adams is associate librarian and assistant dean of foundational sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0534-6716 . 5. P. Haidet is director of medical education research, Woodward Center for Excellence in Health Sciences Education, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania. 6. J. Sukhera is associate professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Paediatrics, and scientist, Centre for Education Research and Innovation, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8146-4947 . 7. R.L. Volpe is associate professor and vice chair for education, Department of Humanities, Penn State College of Medicine, and director, Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3406-9498 . 8. C. de Boer is director, The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine, and founding director, Center Stage Arts in Health, Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. She is president, National Organization for Arts in Health, San Diego, California. 9. L. Lingard is professor, Department of Medicine, and scientist, Centre for Education Research and Innovation, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Although focused reviews have characterized subsets of the literature on the arts and humanities in medical education, a large-scale overview of the field is needed to inform efforts to strengthen these approaches in medicine. METHOD: The authors conducted a scoping review in 2019 to identify how the arts and humanities are used to educate physicians and interprofessional learners across the medical education continuum in Canada and the United States. A search strategy involving 7 databases identified 21,985 citations. Five reviewers independently screened the titles and abstracts. Full-text screening followed (n = 4,649). Of these, 769 records met the inclusion criteria. The authors performed descriptive and statistical analyses and conducted semistructured interviews with 15 stakeholders. RESULTS: The literature is dominated by conceptual works (n = 294) that critically engaged with arts and humanities approaches or generally called for their use in medical education, followed by program descriptions (n = 255). The literary arts (n = 197) were most common. Less than a third of records explicitly engaged theory as a strong component (n = 230). Of descriptive and empirical records (n = 424), more than half concerned undergraduate medical education (n = 245). There were gaps in the literature on interprofessional education, program evaluation, and learner assessment. Programming was most often taught by medical faculty who published their initiatives (n = 236). Absent were voices of contributing artists, docents, and other arts and humanities practitioners from outside medicine. Stakeholders confirmed that these findings resonated with their experiences. CONCLUSIONS: This literature is characterized by brief, episodic installments, privileging a biomedical orientation and largely lacking a theoretical frame to weave the installments into a larger story that accumulates over time and across subfields. These findings should inform efforts to promote, integrate, and study uses of the arts and humanities in medical education.
PURPOSE: Although focused reviews have characterized subsets of the literature on the arts and humanities in medical education, a large-scale overview of the field is needed to inform efforts to strengthen these approaches in medicine. METHOD: The authors conducted a scoping review in 2019 to identify how the arts and humanities are used to educate physicians and interprofessional learners across the medical education continuum in Canada and the United States. A search strategy involving 7 databases identified 21,985 citations. Five reviewers independently screened the titles and abstracts. Full-text screening followed (n = 4,649). Of these, 769 records met the inclusion criteria. The authors performed descriptive and statistical analyses and conducted semistructured interviews with 15 stakeholders. RESULTS: The literature is dominated by conceptual works (n = 294) that critically engaged with arts and humanities approaches or generally called for their use in medical education, followed by program descriptions (n = 255). The literary arts (n = 197) were most common. Less than a third of records explicitly engaged theory as a strong component (n = 230). Of descriptive and empirical records (n = 424), more than half concerned undergraduate medical education (n = 245). There were gaps in the literature on interprofessional education, program evaluation, and learner assessment. Programming was most often taught by medical faculty who published their initiatives (n = 236). Absent were voices of contributing artists, docents, and other arts and humanities practitioners from outside medicine. Stakeholders confirmed that these findings resonated with their experiences. CONCLUSIONS: This literature is characterized by brief, episodic installments, privileging a biomedical orientation and largely lacking a theoretical frame to weave the installments into a larger story that accumulates over time and across subfields. These findings should inform efforts to promote, integrate, and study uses of the arts and humanities in medical education.
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