The Music and Medicine Community strives to encourage music as a therapeutic modality to all physicians. Performing arts and creative outlets for healthcare professionals and patients have the power to:
Medical Humanities
AMWA’s Music and Medicine Community
AMWA wishes to support the incorporation of music as an important and complementary therapeutic intervention in the practice of medicine. Music can be beneficial for an array of medical, neurologic, and psychiatric conditions. Music can help both providers and patients in myriad ways.
The blending of music into a physician’s practice might be achieved by being introduced in an aspiring physician’s training in medical school or residency. Educational and mentorship opportunities would help achieve this goal, which already exists in some medical schools.
Meet the Music and Medicine Community
- Provide creative expression beyond one’s medical identity.
- Foster deeper and more meaningful therapeutic connections
- Enhance patient care
- Reduce physician burnout
As part of our community’s efforts, we would like to feature providers and programs that bring together music and medicine. We aim to encourage providers to consider music to be “prescribed” in their practice and to possibly arrange performances in their clinic or hospital for patients.
Enjoy a gallery that showcases some of our projects as well as performances from our members.
Physician Healers, Healthcare Heroes—A Video Story is a medical humanities collaboration that demonstrates the power of music as medicine.
We invite all members of AMWA to join the community, and we welcome feedback and ideas. We are eager to be your musical mentors in medicine and hope that you will become “AMWA music ambassadors”!
Founding members of AMWA’s Music and Medicine Committee,
Chair: Dr. Mary Rorro with thanks to former co-chair Dr. Tina Wang
Student Co-Chairs: Rebecca Hurwitz, Lori Horhor, Kyungie Sung, and Kayla Li
“Variations on a Theme”
by Karen Poirier-Brode, MD, AMWA Artist-in-Residence 2020-2021