WELCOME to the home of Dalhousie’s Humanities-HEALS Program, representing Healing & Education through the Arts & Life-Skills. Our core sections include:

• Visual Arts (drawing, sculpture, pottery, painting, film)
• Performing Arts (music, theatre, dance)
• Creative Writing (narrative reflections, story-telling, poetry, and literature)
• History of Medicine
• Life-Skills (reflective practice and aspects of self-care)

We link with Spirituality and Bioethics through resources and experts in these areas. We support the use of the arts to enhance learning and as a way to relax, reflect, rejuvenate.

For a taste test of this wonderful program, go to: the HEALS section

Check out our events in each of these areas. We are very interested in ways we can connect with you and others within our health-related and rich artistic communities.

Please come join us and share your ideas to make this terrific program even better.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

FOR DETAILS (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED) PLEASE VISIT OUR EVENTS PAGE

Music the Best Medicine concert: May 3, 2013

Quill and Stethoscope afternoon (celebrating writing and medicine): May 4, 2013

Dalhousie Society for the History of Medicine May meeting: Monday, May 6, 2013

Dr. Anne Basting’s visit (Dr. TJ (Jock) Murray Visting Scholar in Medical Humantities) rescheduled for September 18 and 19, 2013. More details to follow.

VIDEOS:

Empathy, Shmempathy: How Health Care Lost Its Empathy and How It Can Get It Back
by Dr. Brian Goldman (Feb. 21, 2013)
Approximately 68 minutes

History of Medicine in 100 Great Works of Art
by Dr. Jock Murray (Feb. 21, 2013)
Approximately 82 minutes

Famous Physicals - An Augenblick Diagnosis; and discussion on Integrating Arts and Humanities into Medical Education
by Dr. Salvator Mangione (James W Reid Visiting Speaker in the Humanities, for Dalhousie University’s Humanities-HEALS Program)
(April 2, 2013)
Approximately 75 minutes

Empathy in Medical Education
by Dr. Salvator Mangione (James W Reid Visiting Speaker in the Humanities, for Dalhousie University’s Humanities-HEALS Program)
(April 3, 2013)
Approximately 84 minutes

A Tale of Two Brains or How to Rekindle the Artist in You
by Dr. Salvator Mangione (James W Reid Visiting Speaker in the Humanities, for Dalhousie University’s Humanities-HEALS Program)
(April 3, 2013)
Approximately 85 minutes