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UCI School of Medicine’s Medical Humanities and Arts Program advances excellence and integration of humanities and arts into medical student training and the broader practice of medicine. With your support, we can continue to grow our medical student training and research program, co-create innovative humanities and arts-grounded work that promotes medical care for the whole person and fosters compassion, scholarship and professional leadership.

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Through the Medical Humanities and Arts Program, I have had the opportunity to explore what is at the heart of becoming a physician: being a human first. Through art symposiums, elective courses, and Plexus (the journal of medicine and humanities), I have and will continue to explore the intricacies of the physician-patient dynamic, the philosophical underpinnings of compassion, and the art of clinical intersections. I am not only excited but immensely grateful for what being a part of this program will mean for my future patients and the future of medicine. -Nicole Parker, MS1