Singing, playing musical instruments or song writing will play the role of complementary forms of patient care in modern medicine at an upcoming international health convention.
The International Health Research Convention 2019 would be hosted over three days from July 19 by the Center for Music Therapy Education and Research, a unit of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth (SBV) in collaboration with the IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria, and Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
Prof. Subhash Chandra Parija, SBV Vice-Chancellor, said that the convention would promote understanding the science and evidence-based application of music therapy in medical practice, latest developments in this field and the multiple opportunities for engaging in relevant research.
It would benefit doctors, medical students, musicians, music therapists, psychologists, educators, clinicians and researchers in all allied health care profession and creative arts therapists.
The convention is a furtherance of the SBV’s efforts to enter into international collaborative ventures to spread the importance of music therapy as one of the pathways for evidence-based integrative medical practices.
Sumathy Sundar, Director of Centre for Music Therapy Education and Research, SBV, said a workshop on ‘Current Role of Music Therapy in Stress Management’ would aim to benefit the participants by making them understand the biomedical and psychological foundations for using music therapy as an effective stress management strategy. It will also engage the participants in experiential sessions to feel and understand the therapeutic power of music through various methods and techniques such as chanting, singing, playing musical instruments, clinical raga improvisation, song writing and drumming demonstrated by a group of music therapists. One of the high points will be the key-note address by Prof. Helen Millen from Anglia Ruskin University on the ‘Role of music therapy as an evidence based practice’.
The convention aspires to be an academic extravaganza in which 15 workshops, 12 conferences, 3 start-ups and two stakeholder meetings are planned, the organisers said.
It is expected that over 200 national and more than 50 international experts would deliberate upon the recent trends in evidence-based research as applied to the realms of health sciences from a global perspective.