**1. Introduction**

This contribution introduces the Medical Humanities approach to the health sector. Medical Humanities constitute an approach to care using the "human sciences" as a tool to improve skills and abilities and to limit the stress of care professionals and operators.

A useful discipline in this context is related to cultural heritage, as all artistic objects can be "places" of observation and "mirror" of one's knowledge and skills, becoming tools for learning and well-being. In particular, we will refer to experiences in the medical education sector that uses visual art.

Going deeper into the topic, we can realize, for example, how art and medicine have been integrated for centuries. It is enough to go far back in time to find examples transmitted by artistic objects to understand, as a whole, the importance of the solid relationship between medicine and the visual arts.

Art can therefore lead us, through its observation, to understand the anatomy represented or the reality of the cure, in fact, over the centuries, it has become a witness to illness, death, and healing activities. In the care sector, there are many references to art as therapy and many studies that show psycho-physiological evidence of the positive effects that artistic practice and its use can have on the person for the promotion of well-being and health.

For some years, the humanities and in particular, arts have also been used for the development of skills in learning environments. One of these sectors is that of basic and permanent training in the area of care (medicine, health professions) and more generally in the area of health in which Human Sciences have been introduced for the application of innovative models for the development of useful skills. This approach is referred to as Medical Humanities.

We will therefore try to describe the opportunity that the visual arts and pedagogical methodologies can offer to the field of medical education for the development of skills and abilities to improve the work of health professionals, increase resilience, and promote their well-being.
