• Andrew Orr, Farah Hussain, Oana Tomescu, Horace DeLisser, Karen M Grundy, Suzannah Niepold, Adam Rizzo, Sarah Shaw, and Dorene Balmer.
• Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Andrew.orr11@gmail.com.
• J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Nov 1; 38 (14): 325232563252-3256.

BackgroundArts-and-humanities-based interventions are commonly implemented in medical education to promote well-being and mitigate the risk of burnout. However, mechanisms for achieving these effects remain uncertain within graduate medical education. The emerging field of the positive humanities offers a lens to examine whether and how arts-based interventions support well-being in internal medicine interns.AimThrough program evaluation of this visual art workshop, we used a positive humanities framework to elucidate potential mechanisms by which arts-based curricula support well-being in internal medicine interns.SettingWe launched the re-FRAME workshop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in winter 2020.ParticipantsFifty-six PGY-1 trainees from one internal medicine residency program.Program DescriptionThe 3-h re-FRAME workshop consisted of an introductory session on emotional processing followed by two previously described arts-based interventions.Program EvaluationParticipants completed an immediate post-workshop survey (91% response rate) assessing attitudes towards the session. Analysis of open-ended survey data demonstrated 4 categories for supporting well-being among participants: becoming emotionally aware/expressive through art, pausing for reflection, practicing nonjudgmental observation, and normalizing experiences through socialization.DiscussionOur project substantiated proposed mechanisms from the positive humanities for supporting well-being-including reflectiveness, skill acquisition, socialization, and expressiveness-among medical interns.© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Society of General Internal Medicine.

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