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PBS News Hour - Segments

New medical school blends art and science to train new doctors

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A painting can't heal all that's ailing the healthcare system, but it might help the healers themselves and, in turn, the people they care for. That is Alice Walton's goal for a new medical school seeking to transform medical education and the broader healthcare system. Jeffrey Brown has the story for our look at the intersection of art and health for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

A painting certainly can't help fix America's health care system, but it might help the healers themselves.

0:07.0

That's one idea behind a new medical school in Arkansas. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown traveled there to speak with Alice Walton, who created and funded this effort.

0:17.0

For the record, the Walton Family Foundation is a funder of the News Hour.

0:20.0

The piece is part of our coverage of the intersection of health and arts, part of our Canvas series.

0:26.6

A sprawling 134-acre campus in Bentonville, Arkansas.

0:32.6

The 14-year-old Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the six-year-old Heartland Whole Health Institute,

0:40.4

and a brand-new medical school with a design evoking the local Ozark geology.

0:46.5

Bringing art, health, and education together is the goal of the woman behind it all, Alice Walton.

0:52.3

We could collide these wonderful industries and wonderful people and really let them learn

0:59.7

from each other and figure it out.

1:02.1

Health, art.

1:03.6

Yeah, yeah.

1:04.6

Put them together.

1:05.6

Collide.

1:06.6

I like the collision.

1:07.6

Strong door.

1:09.6

Walton, an heir to the Walmart fortune, is one of the world's richest individuals.

1:14.6

Here we go.

1:15.6

But here she drives herself around in her own little put-put.

1:19.6

It only goes 25 miles and a half or so I can't exactly speed.

1:24.6

You're not too dangerous.

1:25.6

I'm not too dangerous, I don't think.

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