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Hoyos and Sing stand next to an easel showing a brightly colored heart of mixed media. The right side is weaved yellow paper, with flowers on the side. The left side of the heart is made of white, red, and pink crepe paper and has a cactus at the top and gold spikes on the side.

Sep 29, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Humanizing Healthcare: UC Irvine’s Medical Humanities and Arts Program

For more than 25 years, UC Irvine has helped students maintain a human-centered perspective through its Medical Humanities and Arts Program. Launched in 1999, MHAP helps future physicians foster a “whole person” approach to care.
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Jun 17, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

Workshop Participants Embody Holistic Care

S. Ama Wray, PhD, led an Embodiology® Workshop focused on holistic care, integrating movement, music, poetry and medicine.
Kathleen Powers

Jun 04, 2025 | Irvine Standard

Top of the class 2025: Irvine’s amazing grads

Medical student Kathleen Powers, who recently matched in general surgery at Oregon Health & Science University, is highlighted as an exceptional student ready to change the world.
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Jun 03, 2025 | Edex Live

Revamping education: Why Art and Humanities are more important now than ever

At UC Irvine, medical students have been studying humanities and arts to build empathy, communication and clinical observation skills.
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May 05, 2025 | South Coast Repertory

Theatre: Just What the Doctor Ordered

Drs. Juliet McMullin, Tan Nguyen and Johanna Shapiro discuss prescribing arts participation as a path for wellness.

Embodiology Workshop, made possible by the Dr. Frank L Meyskens & Linda Meyskens Medical Humanities and Arts Workshop Endowment, with a photo of S. Ama Wray dancing and of Frank and Linda Meyskens

Apr 24, 2025 | UC Irvine School of Medicine

From molecules to distant stars: New workshop series expands our understanding of health

A workshop on movement, health and healing kicks off a new series at UC Irvine made possible through the Dr. Frank L. Meyskens & Linda Meyskens Medical Humanities and Arts Workshop Endowment.
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Apr 01, 2025 | UC Irvine Health Affairs

UC Irvine’s Interprofessional Community Health Action Project

Advancing its commitment to comprehensive community health, the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences at UC Irvine has launched the Interprofessional Community Health Action Project (ICHAP), bringing together students from its four schools to address pressing health issues affecting vulnerable populations.
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Apr 23, 2024 | UC Irvine School of Humanities

Healing beyond medicine

Discover the role of poetry and art in medical education and learn more about the School of Medicine's Medical Humanities and Arts Program.