Bridging Worlds: Expanding Medical Creative Arts Therapies Through Education

Lozen’s Custom-Designed major, “Integrative Neuroscience,” incorporates molecular neurobiology, social sciences, and somatics and dance/movement therapy. Her capstone project is an interprofessional education curriculum for creative arts therapy and medical students, including standardized patient simulations and a framework for clinical internships. This curriculum aims to promote knowledge of the roles of creative arts therapies and their uses in medical settings and establish competencies of clinicians in providing appropriate care and referrals. Lozen will walk through her experience with the Custom-Designed major and the process and final outcome of developing this curriculum.