Making art and making meaning: the value of art-making in medical education in the UK and beyond

Making art and making meaning: the value of art-making in medical education in the UK and beyond

Frances Wedgwood is a GP, educator, and researcher into education in primary care. It is March 2021. We’ve endured two lockdowns and a year of remote learning. We should be holding our Easter awayday for the GP registrars, usually a time of connection and togetherness, celebrating our registrars’ progress, but instead I am peering into my laptop. But in a miracle of communication, an artist on the other side of the country is teaching us to draw…