Professional Excellence in Meaningful Music in Healthcare

The participatory live music practice in hospitals of Meaningful Music in Health Care (MiMiC) shows how musicians and nurses can work and learn together in order to strengthen patient contact and foster compassion in hospital wards. The research project Professional Excellence in Meaningful Music in Healthcare (ProMiMiC) builds on this by strengthening the interprofessional qualities of the practice through an international partnership of conservatoires and hospitals in Groningen, The Hague, London and Vienna.

This practice-based research project, co-financed by Regieorgaan SIA (part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), combines expertise from music and healthcare to develop music-making as a high-quality, interprofessional healthcare intervention. 

Aims 

The ambition of the ProMiMiC consortium, through practice-based research and education, is:  

To develop person-centred music-making so that it functions as a high-quality intervention in healthcare, and to equip musicians with the necessary skills to operate within this interprofessional collaboration. 

The partners aim to embed the MiMiC practice as: 

• An innovative method for nurses to improve compassion skills and patient contact; 
• An innovative intervention to improve the well-being and recovery of hospital patients without possible side effects; 
• A new professional practice for musicians (and the combination of musicians and music therapists) in healthcare. 

Valorisation 

ProMiMiC results will be valorised in the following ways: 

• Development of an interprofessional MiMiC model for use in hospitals; 
• Implementation of HR guidelines and/or tested workshops; 
• Delivery of modules and training courses for musicians and nurses; 
• Publication of workshop programmes, a handbook, and presentation materials; 
• Publication of articles in relevant scientific and professional journals; 
• Presentations at conferences.