A programme of courses, workshops and events using the arts to provide training to medical students and health professionals is being launched by The Clod Ensemble in association with the School of English and Drama, Barts and The London, and Queen Marys School of Medicine and Dentistry.
The project offers artist-led, practice-based programmes which raise the profile of the benefits arts can bring to medicine and healthcare as well as establishing the arts as a teaching methodology in medical training. Contemporary artists and organisations delivering the project include Bobby Baker, Rosetta Life, Deborah Padfield and John Wright, working in a range of artforms. The project evolved from research into The Clod Ensembles 2002 production Kiss My Echo (pictured), which led Artistic Director Suzy Willson to investigate the ways in which the arts might be used to provide training to medical students.