‘It's not the form; it's the process’: a phenomenological study on the use of creative professional development workshops to improve teamwork and communication skills

Abstract

Participation in the arts can be beneficial for the development of interpersonal skills such as teamwork and communication among health professionals.

Medical Humanities : A Novel Approach to Medicine for Washington County, Utah

“…While tools such as literature, poetry, and perhaps history allow for the reader to hold multiple perspectives and to be tolerant of ambiguity, things like music, literature, poetry, and art allow for creativity and imagination, which are useful in skills such as problem-solving. A study performed between mental health professionals and social service staff also discovered that in a problemsolving workshop, the arts enabled for better professional communication and fostered team building among participants (Acai et al, 2016). While improving communication and team building, this could allow physicians also to improve their relationships and communication between other members of the healthcare team.…”

Engaging Medical Students with Art: What’s the Value?

“…Opportunities in medical humanities curricula for students to be artists have only developed more recently (Mukunda et al, 2019) and mostly in the form of practicing 'narrative medicine' alongside access to extracurricular performance activities (Katz and Khoshbin, 2014;McLean, 2014;Acai et al, 2016;Jones, Kittendorf and Kumagai, 2017;Dalton et al, 2020). Active participation in art might be especially useful in medical education for several reasons: First, medical students are frequently accomplished in music, drawing or painting and may have achieved highly in these areas during secondary schooling.…”

Humanidades Médicas: Un Enfoque Novedoso Sobre Medicina Para El Condado De Washington, Utah

“…Mientras que herramientas como la literatura, la poesía y tal vez la historia permiten al lector tener múltiples perspectivas y ser tolerante con la ambigüedad, cosas como la música, la literatura, la poesía y el arte permiten la creatividad y la imaginación, que son útiles en habilidades como la resolución de problemas. Un estudio realizado entre profesionales de la salud mental y personal de servicios sociales también descubrió que, en un taller de resolución de problemas, las artes permitieron una mejor comunicación profesional y fomentaron la creación de equipos entre los participantes (Acai et al, 2016). Al tiempo que mejora la comunicación y la creación de equipos, esto podría permitir a los médicos también mejorar sus relaciones y la comunicación entre otros miembros del equipo de atención médica.…”