Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship
The Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship prepares participants to be leaders in art-museum based health professions education (MBE-HP). Fellows develop pedagogical skills in MBE-HP and learn innovative ways to use art and the art museum to advance health professions educational goals, skills and attitudes. Fellows become part of a community that is deeply sustaining both professionally and personally. In this highly experiential Fellowship participants learn by doing followed by reflection. They will be introduced to and practice core pedagogical methods used in art museum-based education, including Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), the Personal Responses Tour, Thinking Routines, Narrative Writing, as well as explorations of other art forms, metaphor, and mindful practice.
A cornerstone of the Fellowship is the development of a museum-based health professions educational curricular project. Project development is supported by structured monthly meetings and coaching from course directors and graduates of previous cohorts.
In-person course dates for the 2024/2025 cohort will be October 18–20, 2024 and April 4–6, 2025. All Fellows must be able to attend the in-person sessions. Between October and April, we meet once a month virtually. Fee includes interdisciplinary teaching sessions with museum and health professions educators, museum admission, and materials. It does not include travel or lodging for your stays in Boston. This fellowship is presented in partnership with the Center for Visual Arts in Healthcare at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.
The deadline for applications to the 2024-2025 cohort has been extended to 11:59pm eastern time on April 29, 2024
Neal Flynn, Administrative Manager, Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-based
The deadline for applications to the 2024-2025 cohort has been extended to 11:59pm eastern time on April 29, 2024
Neal Flynn, Administrative Manager, Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-based
Health Professions Education Fellowship
coordinator.hmimbe@gmail.com
For a full list of fellowship graduates and projects, please follow this link: https://chacpad.org/art-museumbased-health-professions-education-fellowship
For a full list of fellowship graduates and projects, please follow this link: https://chacpad.org/art-museumbased-health-professions-education-fellowship
The goals of the Fellowship are to:
- teach Fellows innovative ways to use art and the art museum to advance health professions educational goals, skills and attitudes.
- support Fellows’ personal and professional development through transformative experiences that invite deep reflection on professional identity and purpose;
- advance Fellows’ institutional projects and other curriculum development;
- cultivate a community of practice and scholarly advancement of the field
Upon completion of this program, Fellows will be able to:
- use art and the art museum to advance health professions educational goals, skills and attitudes including
- enhancing observation, communication and interpretation skills
- promoting empathy, compassion, and perspective-taking
- fostering reflective practices
- cultivating metacognitive awareness, including recognizing assumptions and biases, and tolerating uncertainty
- developing professionalism and professional identity
- encouraging multidisciplinary teamwork and collaboration
- advancing leadership skills
The Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship prepares participants to be advocates and leaders in art-museum based health professions education (MBE-HP). Fellows develop pedagogical skills in MBE-HP and learn innovative ways to use art and the art museum to advance health professions educational goals, skills and attitudes. Fellows become part of a community that is deeply sustaining both professionally and personally.
Art museum-based education for health professionals is receiving significant national attention and is associated with a variety of important learning outcomes. These include the Prism Model functions of: 1) enhancing core skills such as observation, interpretation and communication; 2) cultivating personal insight, 3) fostering appreciation for multiple perspectives, and 4) exploring pathways for social advocacy. Moreover, in a time when burnout is epidemic, the humanities and arts can spark joy and restore meaning.
Gaufberg E, Zimmermann C, Wong L, Williams R, King B, King K & Paradise R. The Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship: Transformational faculty development through the arts, International Review of Psychiatry, (2023) DOI: 10.1080/09540261.2023.2283596.
Gaufberg E, Zimmermann C, Wong L, Williams R, King B, King K & Paradise R. The Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship: Transformational faculty development through the arts, International Review of Psychiatry, (2023) DOI: 10.1080/09540261.2023.2283596.
The Art Museum-based Health Professions Fellowship is a longitudinal program for up to 15 health professions educators. Boston is home to world class cultural institutions, and the Fellowship will introduce innovative ways to use the art museum environment to advance health professions educational goals. Priority selection is given to those already actively engaged in museum-based educational activities. The successful applicant will have strong support from their home institution and a museum partner for their museum-based educational activities.
The Fellowship takes place over 7 months. Two required in-person immersive experiences will be held in Boston, one at the beginning of the Fellowship and one at the end. Monthly meetings between the two immersion sessions focus on project development and program evaluation. Fellows will use an online learning platform between in-person sessions to share reflections and resources. Prior to the first session, Fellows will be assigned core readings and will meet each other virtually. The majority of our time together in Boston will be used for gallery-based educational experiences and exploration of relevant connections to core themes in health professions education. In the final in-person session, participants will teach in the galleries and present developed projects to one another.
Continuing Medical Education (CME) is not available for the Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship.