A Medical School Is Using Art to Combat Bias, Training Students to Diagnose Famous Paintings (and Identify Their Assumptions in the Process) (ArtNet News)

Karen Clemmer 6/30/2012:52 AM

By ArtNet News, June 29, 2020.

As conversations about bias in health care reach new heights amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a new course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine is hoping to combat the scourge with an unlikely tool: famous artworks.

The school has launched a new course in collaboration with the university’s Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute that tasks junior- and senior-level med students with analyzing works of art by figures including Michelangelo, Paul van Somer, and Sir Luke Fildes. The goal is to teach them to look before they jump to conclusions, becoming mindful of assumptions they make based on race, class, or previous knowledge.

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