The Importance of Poetry in Teaching

The arts in medicine is not a new thing, it's actually quite an old thing. The other way we can do it is using poetry. I was doing this with first year medical students straight out of school. They absolutely they were bowled over by it. There's a culture certainly in Malaysia and also elsewhere that maybe in SNR, Ireland is more kind of art artsy. But there's a culture generally in the modern world that when you start studying medicine or something like that or law or so engineering that just stamp it out. So I think what makes a doctor, somebody special who can communicate well, is their interest in the arts. And I think it does help them and