Hi! Thanks so much for joining us. I'm here at the Criser Cancer Resource
Center at UF Health. I'm here with the Center for Arts in Medicine Director
Jill Sonke. Thanks so much for joining us, Jill. Jill and I will be discussing the
Center for Arts in Medicine graduate programs and a little bit about the
application and we also have Center for Arts in Medicine faculty standing by to
answer your questions in the comments section. So answer them as soon as they,
as soon as your questions arise. Jill can you tell us a little bit about the
Center for Arts in Medicine. Sure! The Center for Arts in Medicine was
developed in 1996 as an outgrowth of the UF Health Arts in Medicine program here
at UF Health. So it was created really in response to interest among students in
what was happening here at UF Health with Arts in Medicine. In 1994, I began
serving as an artist in residence and was also teaching dance up on campus
and within six months I had so many students interested -- I think I had six
students doing independent studies in that first period of time, so it began
clear -- it became clear that there was an interest among students. And so, in 1996
we developed the Dance in Medicine course, which was really the first course
here at UF, and maybe in the United States, focused on dance and its
applications in the healthcare setting. So what does the Center for Arts in Medicine
do now, today? Well since 1996 we've grown quite a bit.
So we now offer a Master of Arts, an MA in Arts in Medicine, and that program
has been running for three years. We offer two online graduate certificates
one in Arts in Medicine, and one in Arts in Public Health, and we also offer three
undergraduate certificates -- one in Arts in Medicine, one in Dance
in Medicine, and one in Music and Medicine. Why is arts and health
so important? Arts and Health is important in a lot of ways these days. So
over the past thirty years we've seen a real shift in health care from a focus
on technology and the capabilities of science within the kind of reductionist
view that developed in health care over the few centuries prior to an expansion
toward holism, and really that started about 30-40 years
ago in the United States and elsewhere where health care institutions became
more interested in attending to the whole person, rather than just a
diagnosis, the treatment and cure. And the arts fit into that beautifully because
the arts are a way of humanizing healthcare environments, bringing works
of original Arts into the healthcare environment changes that environment
tremendously. And artists working in the healthcare environment also provide a
level of humanism through providing enjoyable opportunities to view
performances, to make art at the bedside, those artists are providing distraction,
expression, connection, and they really overall deliver a message to patients
that health care institutions really care about them as a whole person rather
than just their diagnosis. So then the individuals that have backgrounds in the
arts they fit in as...? So right now we, we understand that there are arts programs
at probably more than half of hospitals and healthcare institutions in the
United States. The Joint Commission, the National Accreditation Organization for
Healthcare did surveys in 2004 and 2007 and at that time we saw consistently
among a very high response rate that there were programs at about half of
hospitals in the country, so there are really a lot of opportunities for
artists these days. Artists in any discipline -- musicians and visual artists
have opportunities to work in those programs as do dramatists, actors, dancers,
and writers so our programs here at UF health reflect all of those art forms as
do many programs in the United States. So we're seeing artists with well-developed
backgrounds in the arts who are, who are really interested in facilitating
creative experiences and arts encounters for people in hospital, being employed by
those hospitals around the country -- as well as being employed in community
centers and community settings to facilitate programs that engage
community members and that promote health and well-being through
creative activities. Fantastic! So Jill, could you tell us a little bit about how the
graduate programs here at the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine
prepare artists to go into, into the field. Sure! So our programs, as you know,
are online the two graduate certificates and the MA in Arts in Medicine, and so
those programs provide really in-depth education around the theoretical
foundations of the field -- you know why the arts are linked to health, and why so
many arts programs are developing in health care these days. They also provide
students with opportunities to get practical experience in their own
communities, so three of the courses in the program have students working
at a hands-on level in their community and then developing a deeper
understanding of that work through coursework. They also learn a lot of
practical skills for proposing, developing, and funding programs for
evaluating and conducting research on those programs, so they really get a
range of experience that prepares them to be professionals in the field. And
it's not just artists who are training we have nurses, doctors, Hospital
chaplains, people across an array of Health Sciences disciplines who
participate in these programs as well. Because they want to, as clinical care
providers, be able to either include the arts in the way they're providing care
today or they want to start and help run arts programs in their health care
institutions as well. So could you give a little insight into the typical student
experience in one of these online degree programs? So we're really thrilled to
hear from our students that even though the program is in an online environment
that they feel very connected to one another, that they feel very connected to
their faculty, and that they feel like they're really part of a community -- and
that's exciting to us. So, I think we've created an online environment that
is very engaging, and so students are typically working part time in the
program, many of our students work full-time and so they take one to two
courses at a time, and that part-time schedule still allows
them to complete the MA in two years or to complete a certificate in ten months --
which is really great. So we also hear from the students that
they really appreciate the blend of kind of didactic education that's happening
with practical hands-on learning that's happening in their own communities. And
that takes place in the practicum course? One of the core courses? It does. So
within the certificate or the MA students do a practicum in which they
find a site in their home community to get hands-on experience and they
identify a local supervisor to mentor them and they have a faculty member
who's mentoring them as well. And then as they move forward through the program,
through the MA program, they do a capstone where again over a 16-week
period of time they're engaged actively in their home community, and in that
course they're able to add an evaluation or research component to the work that
they're doing as well. Right. So you mentioned the faculty, and we have
someone be the international leaders in the field of Arts in Health here and
could you speak a little bit about what they bring to the table? Sure! Our faculty
are indeed leaders in the field, so we have folks in our faculty who have been
working for more than 20 years in this field and among them are people who are
truly pioneers in the field who started when I did 20 plus years ago when there
really weren't educational programs yet and there weren't really than too many
models that were accessible to learn from. So these folks really developed
practice based on a deep understanding, personal understanding, of the connection
between the arts and health. And now as the field has evolved and we've got
networks and peers and many programs to look at, our faculty are really out there
learning from others, speaking about the work that we do, and really defining best
practices in the field. Our faculty are also leading researchers in the field,
and so we're, we're undertaking really in-depth investigations that help
us understand what it is about the arts that contributes to health, and where, and
when, and how, the arts are most useful in the healthcare environment and in
community settings. We also have faculty from
around the world, which is exciting. So we've got folks who are, who are well
established here at UF Health and at the University of Florida. And we've also got
adjunct faculty from Georgetown University and from the UK, so our
program brings in international perspectives as well. And students can
also have the opportunity to get that international perspective abroad, and
there's a study abroad? That's right. We have an undergrad study abroad program
which has a graduate section as well so our graduate students can participate in
our study abroad which happens in May and June in Northern Ireland. We're also
developing a study abroad component of our practicum and capstone courses so
students could choose to travel with us to undertake their practicum or capstone
work, which is really exciting. That is really cool. Jill, it's my understanding that
you just returned from a conference in the UK, could you tell us a little bit
about that? Sure, I did. I just attended the Culture, Health and Well-Being
Conference in the UK, in Bristol, in England, and it was so exciting. There
were just about 500 people from the field from 20 different countries in
attendance, and to me it was so thrilling to see the growth in the field. This
conference happened four years ago and to see the growth in the field and
especially the evolution in research and academic programs in the field was
really exciting. There are quite a few academic programs cropping up, especially
around the UK, and it was really exciting to be a part of a community of academics
looking at this field and considering the really rapid growth that's taking
place right now in the field, both in healthcare and in public health. That's
really exciting. So now's a good time. It's a great time to be a part
of this field, truly, I just couldn't have been more excited by what I learned at
the conference this year. Fantastic. So every year the Center for
Arts in Medicine hosts a summer intensive could you tell us a little
about what the summer intensive is? Yes, I'd be happy to. So this summer, in July,
we're running our 16th annual Arts in Medicine summer intensive here on the
University of Florida campus and that's a program that is really a two-week deep
and fairly comprehensive dive into what the field of Arts
In Medicine is and how to get involved in it. And so the program brings
professionals and students from around the world to our campus, which is
exciting. I think we had people from seven countries coming this summer. The
program serves as a prerequisite for the MA or certificate program, and it also
now is an elective within the MA program so many of our students wanted an
opportunity to be able to come to the UF campus, and so we established that
program as an elective. So now students do come for that two-week period of time
they get to know our faculty, they get to know people from around the country in
the field, and they get to experience our program on the site, which is very
exciting. Those students that come to the summer intensive from, then come from
anywhere, right? They do. Seven countries this year. That's very exciting. Alright, so I know
that the center is currently accepting applications for the fall 2017 term, for
all of its graduate programs. Until when? We've got a little time left,
so we typically accept applications up to about three weeks before a semester
start. Although it's certainly better to apply earlier, we can get people through
the application process with about three weeks before the semester starts. So we
do have room in our MA and in our certificate programs for the Fall.
And so for those of you watching, we will be sending out an application checklist
so that you can get started on your applications. Well thank you so much for
joining us. I learned a lot about the Center for Arts in Medicine graduate
program. I think is very helpful for everybody out there too, and so thanks so
much. Thank you Lauren, and just a note that I would be happy to answer any
questions via email as well as would our graduate programs advisor Ellie Sommer.
Great. And I'm also available via email or phone to answer any questions about
your applications. Thanks so much for joining us, have a great day.
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