Posted: April 19, 2005
MEDICAL STUDENTS STUDY ART TO SHARPEN CLINICAL OBSERVATION SKILLS
The University of North Texas Health Science Center and the Amon Carter Museum have partnered to present “An Eye for Detail: The Art of Observation” to first-year medical students. The innovative course is designed to help future physicians work on diagnostic skills by examining paintings and photographs from the museum’s collection.
An Eye for Detail was originally created in 2001 by the health science center and the Amon Carter based on a collaboration between the Frick Collection and the Weill-Cornell Medical School in New York. At that time, the health science center’s course was offered to first- and second-year medical students on a voluntary basis. Beginning this year, first-year medical students are required to enroll in An Eye for Detail as part of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine curriculum at the health science center.
“By looking at art, students learn to observe, describe and interpret what they are seeing,” said Bruce Dubin, DO, JD, associate dean of medical education. “They then translate this into the clinical setting using non-verbal cues to determine a patients’ mental and physical well-being.”
During the course, students look at approximately five portraits in the Amon Carter Museum galleries. The portraits range from photography to oil paintings. Students are instructed to use visual clues from the portraits to make conclusions about the person’s age, ethnicity, health, mood, personality, socioeconomic status and occupation.
The course is facilitated by museum staff members, working with groups of seven to eight students, who share their findings in large group discussions. The course takes approximately five hours and includes a pre-test and post-test, using medical photography, to determine if students improved as a result of the program.
“An Eye for Detail challenges students to utilize and strengthen their problem-solving skills, exercise their creative thinking skills, and process visual information,” said Nora Christie, Amon Carter Museum tour program manager. “We believe that honing these skills early in their medical education will make them better physicians.”
An Eye for Detail will be offered to students April 20, 21 and 22; May 6 and 27; and June 3 and 10.
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Contact: Kay Colley 817-735-2553, cell 817-980-5090, e-mail kacolley@hsc.unt.edu.
MEDICAL STUDENTS STUDY ART TO SHARPEN CLINICAL OBSERVATION SKILLS
The University of North Texas Health Science Center and the Amon Carter Museum have partnered to present “An Eye for Detail: The Art of Observation” to first-year medical students. The innovative course is designed to help future physicians work on diagnostic skills by examining paintings and photographs from the museum’s collection.An Eye for Detail was originally created in 2001 by the health science center and the Amon Carter based on a collaboration between the Frick Collection and the Weill-Cornell Medical School in New York. At that time, the health science center’s course was offered to first- and second-year medical students on a voluntary basis. Beginning this year, first-year medical students are required to enroll in An Eye for Detail as part of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine curriculum at the health science center.
“By looking at art, students learn to observe, describe and interpret what they are seeing,” said Bruce Dubin, DO, JD, associate dean of medical education. “They then translate this into the clinical setting using non-verbal cues to determine a patients’ mental and physical well-being.”
During the course, students look at approximately five portraits in the Amon Carter Museum galleries. The portraits range from photography to oil paintings. Students are instructed to use visual clues from the portraits to make conclusions about the person’s age, ethnicity, health, mood, personality, socioeconomic status and occupation.
The course is facilitated by museum staff members, working with groups of seven to eight students, who share their findings in large group discussions. The course takes approximately five hours and includes a pre-test and post-test, using medical photography, to determine if students improved as a result of the program.
“An Eye for Detail challenges students to utilize and strengthen their problem-solving skills, exercise their creative thinking skills, and process visual information,” said Nora Christie, Amon Carter Museum tour program manager. “We believe that honing these skills early in their medical education will make them better physicians.”
An Eye for Detail will be offered to students April 20, 21 and 22; May 6 and 27; and June 3 and 10.
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Contact: Kay Colley 817-735-2553, cell 817-980-5090, e-mail kacolley@hsc.unt.edu.
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