Muse Meets Medicine : Festival of art and Human Dimension in Healthcare

Muse Meets Medicine

invites students, clinicians, artists, patients and educators to pause and explore what it means to be fully human in healthcare. Join us for a two-day celebration where art and medicine meet – not as opposites, but as partners in healing, learning and thriving.

Participants will have an opportunity to engage in creative practices and interdisciplinary dialogues that reveal vital connections between the humanities, medicine and the sciences. Through these art-based encounters, attendees will experience benefits that enhance clinical reasoning, empathy, communication, observation and critical thinking.

Through creative enquiry, conversation and collaboration, we open spaces for imagination, reflection, and connection – attending to the human dimension often squeezed by systems that prize speed and certainty. Participants will be able to select workshops to focus on wellbeing, enhancing clinical practice and/or enriching educational practice.

Together we ask:

• What nourishes our capacity to care?
• How might creativity help us see, treat, and heal differently?
• What does flourishing look and feel like?

Expect installations, performances, reflective workshops and shared moments of meaning-making that remind us that care is, at heart, a creative act. Join us as we co-create a flourishing space – relational, meaningful, compassionate and shadow-aware – where the muse meets medicine and new possibilities for humanising healthcare are generated.

Organising committee:

Dr Giampaolo Martinelli (Barts Hospital)

Prof. Louise Younie (Queen Mary University of London)

Dr Giskin Day (Imperial College London)

Prof. Christine Bentley (Missouri Southern State University)

Megan Tjasink (Barts Hospital & Queen Mary University of London)