Gain new knowledge, learn to apply the arts to your medical practice, and give yourself a creativity break in this 8 week workshop series!
AiMES for MDs is a virtual workshop series inviting healthcare professionals to experience musical performances and Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) discussions about visual art while considering their compelling uses in healthcare practice. Time-strapped practitioners are prone to staccato looking and soundbite hearing, making instantaneous assumptions about what they see or hear. Fostering visual and aural literacy provides clinicians with important communication and observation skills, builds resilience, and may reduce physician burnout.
--> Time Commitment = 8 one-hour sessions over 8 weeks. Participants must attend a minimum of 6 of the 8 sessions. Sessions take place on Thursdays at 12 pm EST from February 25 - April 15, 2021. <--
After participating in the eight-week workshop series, participants will understand Visual Thinking Strategies and its broad applications to their medical practice. They will also gain a greater appreciation for music and visual art as a means for addressing burnout and providing stress relief. Participants will develop their own observation and communication skills, build empathy by increasing their ability to consider multiple perspectives, and improve their diagnostic skills in the process.
Through unique lectures by medical and art experts, musical performances by Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) musicians, and VTS discussions about works of art by Pucker Gallery artists and others, participants will walk away refreshed and excited to employ critical and creative thinking into their medical practice.*
Great use of academic/educational funds OR ask your department about covering the registration fee!
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Phillip Pearl, MD , Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School; musician
Lisa Wong, MD, pediatrician at Milton Pediatric Associates, associate co-director of the Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School, author of Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine; musician
Christopher Yuskaitis, MD, PhD, Instructor of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; musician
Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis, MA, CMS, Principal of Yellow Room Consulting, museum educator, VTS facilitator, and visual artist
FEATURED LSO SOLOISTS
Enchi Chang, violin
Tracy Doyle, MD, harp
Leonard Zon, MD, trumpet
Jennifer Zuk, PhD, CCC-SLP, flute
OUTLINE OF WORKSHOP SESSIONS
8 sessions @ 1 hr. each = 8 total hrs. conducted virtually once a week
Feb. 25 | Session 1. Lecture: What can I see? How do I hear? Considering the Role of the Arts in Medicine – Dr. Lisa Wong (45 min.) + musical performance w/ guided questions: Dr. Lisa Wong/LSO violin (15 min.)
March 4 | Session 2. VTS conversations (2 pieces of art)- Erin Yuskaitis (45 min.) + musical performance w/ guided questions: Dr. Tracy Doyle/LSO harp (15 min.)
March 11 | Session 3. Lecture: The Neuroaesthetics of Visual Thinking Strategies – Dr. Chris Yuskaitis & Erin Yuskaitis w/ musical accompaniment by Dr. Phil Pearl (60 min.)
March 18 | Session 4. VTS conversations (2 pieces of art)- Erin Yuskaitis (45 min.) + musical performance w/ guided questions: Dr. Jenny Zuk/LSO flute (15 min.)
March 25 | Session 5. Lecture: Evaluating Art and the EEG – Dr. Chris Yuskaitis & Erin Yuskaitis (45 min.) + musical performance w/ guided questions: Dr. Chris Yuskaitis/LSO oboe (15 min.)
April 1 | Session 6. VTS conversations (2 pieces of art) - Erin Yuskaitis (45 min.) + musical performance w/ guided questions: Dr. Leonard Zon/LSO trumpet (15 min.)
April 8 | Session 7. Lecture: Synesthesia: The Colors of Sound – Dr. Chris Yuskaitis & Erin Yuskaitis w/ musical accompaniment by Dr. Phil Pearl (60 min.)
April 15 | Session 8. VTS conversations (2 pieces of art) - Erin Yuskaitis (45 min.) + musical performance w/ guided questions: Enchi Chang, Harvard med student/LSO violin (15 min.)
* Please email Erin with any questions about program content at erin[at]yellowroomconsulting.com.
This workshop series is supported in part by a grant from the American Epilepsy Society.