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Personcentered care is essential for a futureproof healthcare system, yet its implementation lags behind due to a predominantly diseasecentered perspective. Traditional educational approaches appear insufficient to shift this mindset. Perspective change rarely results from information transfer alone; it arises through personal experience. Art brings this experiential dimension into medical education and fosters a different way of seeing care. It helps healthcare professionals deal with complexity, uncertainty, and recognize their own assumptions. In the Netherlands, several artbased initiatives exist within medical training, including Medical Education Empowered by Theater for shared decisionmaking (MEET SDM). MEET SDM is an experiential training designed to promote perspective change for learning shared decisionmaking. Through reflexive dialogue, theater- and improvisational exercises, participants experience that shared decisionmaking requires genuine attention to another’s perspective, connection, and (non)verbal presence. Participants reported concrete personcentered behavioral changes in clinical encounters, positively influencing the doctor–patient relationship. Artbased education contributes to overcoming the disease-centered perspective and supports a different way of viewing oneself, one’s professional role, and the patient.

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