Internal Resident Musicians (IRM)

The MIR Project is a program with triple social impact: clinical research, health humanization and job creation among young musicians. Fundación Cultura en Vena aims to improve people's lives by injecting culture where it does not usually reach. Their main areas of action are health centers and rural communities at risk of depopulation. Within the general objective of Cultura en Vena of implementing artistic practices in hospital environments, the Internal Resident Musicians (IRM) has the more specific purpose of normalizing the presence of the musician in clinical protocols, supported by scientific evidence that justifies the use of live music in certain medical treatments. Scope of the project: hospital humanization, clinical research, employability of the musicians. The concept alone is groundbreaking: employing a musician in the health system as hospital staff, with the aim that their work contributes to what doctors do, improving the prognosis and health outcomes that can be observed in patients.