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January, 2003 (date TBA)
Training The Medical Gaze: Uses Of The Arts In Medical Education

Medicine and art have always had important things to teach each other. Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci dissected cadavers to understand the human body, while medical texts long relied on skilled illustrations to represent their science. But in the twenty-first century, with all the sophisticated technological tools available to physicians for discovering pathology and diagnosing disease, does art still have anything valuable to teach medicine?

August 15, 2002

2001 Version Of Plexus: UCI-COM Journal Of Arts And Humanities is now online! Check it out.

July 1, 2002

The new and improved UCI-COM Program In Medical Humanities And Arts website is now online. Includes updated course descriptions and faculty profiles, new presentations, and a new section "Educational Projects And Programs."

 

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