In Hopes Of Shaping More Sensitive Doctors, Med Schools Expose Students To The Arts

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Published November 3, 2015 at 5:23 PM EST

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In a course at the Yale School of Medicine, medical students must interpret works of art at a museum.

Marie-Lan Nguyen via Wikimedia Commons

You don't expect to see classes like fiction writing, drawing and drama in a medical school curriculum. But some of the county's top med schools are integrating arts and humanities classes in an attempt to build empathy for the patient experience of illness, as Stat News reports.

Medical schools incorporate arts into doctors' training