The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts works with medical schools and healthcare systems to provide humanities-based training for medical students, nursing students, university faculty members and practicing physicians. Program offerings include content-based talks and workshops introducing historic collaborations between artists and doctors that advanced understanding of the human body, as well as hands-on and "eyes-on" exercises that build new skills with clinical applications.

Exercises led by trained facilitators focus on examination and observation, not historical interpretation, and create a safe space to consider the importance of non-clinical skills in better healthcare practice. All elements of this work share a common goal of helping healthcare practitioners identify unconscious bias in decision-making, while each workshop and classroom experience focuses on a specific skill development like accurate visual observations, empathy, teamwork, emotional intelligence, and the importance of enhanced visual vocabulary in contemporary medical practice. PAFA staff currently teach classes at multiple area schools—Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and Cooper Medical School at Rowan University, each of whom design the humanities-portion of their curricula in different ways. (Sample 6 and 12 hour curricula available upon request.)