{"id":11364,"date":"2026-10-01T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazines.soton.ac.uk\/fah\/?p=11364"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:09:33","slug":"becoming-doctors-exhibition-reveals-the-people-and-stories-behind-the-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazines.soton.ac.uk\/fah\/2026\/10\/01\/becoming-doctors-exhibition-reveals-the-people-and-stories-behind-the-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Doctors exhibition reveals the people and stories behind the profession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Becoming Doctors exhibition reveals the people and stories behind the profession<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A new exhibition at John Hansard Gallery brings together art, medicine and the humanities to explore medical students\u2019 identities, experiences and hopes for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming Doctors: Stories of Identity, Inequality, and the Future of Care<\/a><\/em> showcases creative work by medical students at the University of Southampton. Featuring photography, poetry, podcasts, drawings, animations and zines, it offers a glimpse into who the students are, what they experience and the kind of doctors they hope to become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition is a collaboration between the faculties of Arts and Humanities and Medicine. It is co-led by Dr Luca Di Gregorio<\/a>, Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Education, and Dr Joan Tumblety<\/a>, Associate Professor in History, who are both Co-Directors of the Southampton Centre for Medical and Health Humanities<\/a>. The curatorial team also includes Edward Dymond, Graduate Associate Intern in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project also connects with Joan\u2019s role as Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities theme lead for culture, health and wellbeing, and is a good example of the cross-Faculty work supported by the Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflecting on the exhibition, Joan said: “I am thrilled that the exhibition showcases the value of arts and humanities in the training of medical doctors. Exploring these other disciplinary perspectives, and expressing their own creativity, helps medical students to see patients as subjects with their own lives and opinions, rather than just as clinical objects. It also helps them understand the provisional and historically contingent nature of what becomes established as medical knowledge, and indeed to see subjectivity as a valuable form of knowledge in its own right”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pieces on display were created through Medical Humanities<\/a>, a compulsory module for Southampton medical students. The module uses the arts, humanities and social sciences to help students explore medicine, healthcare and the human experiences surrounding them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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