Art of Analysis: A Case Study in Fostering Empathy, Critical Thinking, and Mindfulness through Museum-University Partnership
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2018-04
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
Abstract
Art of Analysis (AoA) is a nationally-recognized partnership between the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) and The Ohio State University Medicine and the Arts (OSU M&A). Attendees will explore the partnership, which brings students and faculty from Ohio State medical sciences to CMA for an evening of facilitated discussion with art. AoA participants practice critical, creative, and empathetic thinking, including close observation, questioning assumptions and adopting multiple perspectives. Learn how presenters co-created and evolved a program to support wellness and learning for students by capitalizing on the expertise of art museum educators and emergent outcomes. The presenters advocate that the dispositions fostered in AoA are essential for indivi-dual and community wellness, while supporting participants to think in fresh ways about deeply meaningful partnerships. Attendees will have time to generate and receive input on ideas for their own contexts.
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Art of Analysis (AoA) is a nationally-recognized partnership between the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) and the Ohio State University Medicine and the Arts (Ohio State M&A) initiative. AoA uses art as a catalyst for conversation and collaboration, fostering a range of skills essential for student wellness, quality medical care, and resilience in a high burnout field. The session takes AoA as a case study to explore what makes a meaningful, sustainable partnership for wellness and growth. Presenters will 1) recreate a portion of the AoA experience; 2) highlight key aspects of wellness fostered through the experience; 3) identify elements that support success and present challenges; and 4) support participants to generate ideas for taking these lesson to their own contexts. Art of Analysis brings students and faculty from medical sciences across Ohio State to CMA for an evening of in-gallery, facilitated discussion. Participants practice critical and creative thinking habits, including careful observation, questioning assumptions, collaborative thinking, reasoning with evidence, and adopting multiple perspectives. AoA began in 2010 as an approach to fostering observation skills and comfort with ambiguity – both crucial skillsets for diagnosis and treatment, and both identified as growth areas for medical students by the then-dean of the College of Medicine. Evaluations revealed participant perception that AoA supported their observation skills and shifted their thinking about the role of ambiguity/developing and reasoning through multiple interpretations. Evaluations also surfaced emergent, highly-valuable outcomes: students reported: feeling compassion for subjects of works of art, valuing the exploration of points of view different from their own, gaining appreciation for peers' perspectives, and cherishing the time to slow down. In other words, the experience created the opportunity to build empathetic behaviors necessary for the human work of medicine, and provided participants with self-care strategies to support resilience as students and medical professionals. Based on these findings, AoA has evolved to explicitly support a broader range of critical, creative and empathetic dispositions. The session advocates that these dispositions are essential for individual and community wellness, and supports attendees to think in fresh ways about deeply-meaningful partnerships for their own contexts. AoA is the subject of an article in the Journal of Learning Through the Arts. Session presenters Jennifer Lehe (manager of strategic partnerships, CMA) and Dr. Linda Stone, MD (special assistant to the dean for humanism and professionalism, Ohio State COM) presented AoA at a national convening of medical school-art museum partnerships (Art of Examination, 2016 MoMA). Art of Analysis is part of Ohio State's Medicine and the Arts Initiative, for which Dr. Stone was awarded the 2017 Governor's Awards for the Arts for Community Development and Participation.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Jennifer Lehe, Manager of Strategic Partnerships, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio State Medicine and the Arts Board, jennifer.lehe@cmaohio.org (Corresponding Author); Linda Stone, MD, Special Assistant to the Dean for Humanism and Professionalism, Ohio State College of Medicine, Ohio State Medicine and the Arts Board, Ohio State Medical Humanities.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Jennifer Lehe, Manager of Strategic Partnerships, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio State Medicine and the Arts Board, jennifer.lehe@cmaohio.org (Corresponding Author); Linda Stone, MD, Special Assistant to the Dean for Humanism and Professionalism, Ohio State College of Medicine, Ohio State Medicine and the Arts Board, Ohio State Medical Humanities.
Keywords
professional and academic resilience, empathy, university-museum partnerships, arts
Citation
Engaged Scholars, v. 6 (2018).