Medical schools across the country including Harvard, Yale and Northwestern universities are mixing in literature, art, drama—even dance—to the hardcore science courses they offer students.

After a busy week with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine classes, Brooke Quinton and Yiran Wang found that painting and drawing together were good ways to relax on the weekends.

The classes are open to people living with dementia and their carers and families Kath and John Griffiths have been married for 63 years, and for the past decade, she has also been his carer, after he ...