Through their eyes: a breast cancer survivor-led art workshop for undergraduate medical students

Key Points

• Empathy and reflective practice improve through modules like arts-informed education, enhancing medical training.
• Students showed a significant increase in understanding patient perspectives, especially in contexts of breast cancer care.
• Assessment using qualitative feedback indicates effective curricular integration of patient experiences into medical education.
• Highlights the need for broader adoption and long-term studies to validate the effectiveness and scalability of these educational methods.