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Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Parulkar, Isha (author); Mickey, S. Hollis (author); Dunlap, Rachel (author); Qureshi, Abrar (author); Kawaoka, John (author)
Genre:: abstracts (summaries)
Subject:: Dermatology > education; Art > Study and teaching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/1558-3931

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Abstract:: Clinical observation and the interpretation of visual data play an integral role in medical decision making, and thus have long been emphasized in medical education. Museum art-based interventions, in particular, have been utilized as pedagogical tools by medical educators as means to enhance observational skills. A number of existing studies have demonstrated that the examination of fine art can be used to effectively hone medical students' observational and pattern-recognition skills. While there is strong evidence of the benefits for using visual art exercises in medical education, a paucity of literature exists on its application to graduate medical education training. Most programs that have adopted art-based training into their residency curricula tend to use art to address competencies in empathy and humanistic values rather than to develop technical skills such as diagnostic observation. In the field of dermatology, in particular, where visual literacy is considered a fundamental part of a physician's skill set, there is a need to develop the skill of looking and to perfect the identification of skin pathology. Previous reports indicate that dermatology residents dramatically improve their descriptions of patients after just one session of studying and describing narrative artwork in a museum.
Notes:: Scholarly concentration: Medical Education

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Parulkar, Isha, Mickey, S. Hollis, Dunlap, Rachel, et al., "Artful observation: an exercise in using visual art training for dermatology residents" (2015). Scholarly Concentrations Program Collection of Abstracts. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/1558-3931

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Scholarly Concentrations Program Collection of Abstracts

Each spring the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Scholarly Concentrations Program (SCP) publishes a print volume of abstracts written by medical students in the SCP and their mentors that describes the research projects that they collaborated on over …

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Artful observation: an exercise in using visual art training for dermatology residents