Medical humanities allows students in medical school to look at a patient like how one would look at a painting. When someone analyzes an image, they must go beyond surface level details like what is physically on the canvas. Art contains layers, as do humans, and to be truly able to understand an artwork, those layers have to be peeled back. When students in medical school look at art in this deep way, they develop better critical thinking skills, observational skills, and notice idiosyncratic behaviors that would previously be swept under the rug. Then, these skills can be applied to patients in real life. Beyond, studying art allows for the exploration of different cultures, races, and genders. When applied to medcine, this creaters larger levels of cultural tolerance and empathy, something that physicains are always striving to incoorporate into their medical practices. 

As more schools start to learn about the benefits of medical humanities, hopefully they will start incorporating it into their curriculum. Having activities such as artistic case studies where a student must look at a model in a painting and observe their condition and determine a diagnosis would integrate the artistic and medical sides, leading to practical uses of time and resources. Having a break from normal medical classes could also be beneficial for future physicans. Going to art museums or simply studying art in class is a nice way to pause from constant medical classes. Thinking less superficially and more creatively allows for a more personal approach to medicine as well.