Air date: June 26, 2011

Host: Kathy Miller, MD

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Interview: Laura Landro, assistant managing editor
Wall Street Journal
Health reporter, "The Informed Patient"

It is not just Indiana University that's requiring humanities courses for medical students.

Wall Street Journal health reporter Laura Landro recently wrote about a national trend for medical schools to require courses in the arts.

Today, Sound Medicine's Kathy Miller, MD, talks to Ms. Landro about ways medical students are learning about the art and expressing themselves in art and literature.

Laura Landro is an assistant managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and writes the "The Informed Patient” column for the paper.

Additional Resources:

• Read Laura's article on the topic, as well as some medical student poetry, at the Informed Patient Blog for Feb 11, 2011.
• See art and read literature created by physicans, medical students, and other health professionals in Reflections, a publication from the IU School of Medicine.
• Laura Landro writes The Informed Patient column at the WSJ.