A course on music history for medical students?
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2021.176886Keywords:
Music, Medical Education, ArtsAbstract
Participation in playful and reflective activities could increase the students’ resilience to the stress associated with the medical course. In this sense, music could facilitate the development of feelings and attitudes, such as social inclusion, balance, attention, imagination, and reflection, essential for clinical practice. In this article, I report my experience with the optional discipline “Introduction to the history of Western classical music.” This course has been offered annually to medical students since 2015. The anonymous evaluations received by 62.5% of the 64 students who have attended the discipline so far showed a high satisfaction rate (100% of the assessments marked as good or excellent) and the recognition of its importance for medical training (95% of evaluations marked as good or excellent).
These results encourage the continuation of the discipline and the introduction of similar activities into our curriculum.
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