Art courses could help medical students become better clinical observers

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) In an effort to explore ways to improve clinical observation skills among medical students, researchers from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in collaboration with educators at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, published a study in Ophthalmology that found significant improvement in observational recognition skills among students who took an art observation course and demonstrated that art training could help teach medical students to become better clinical observers.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news