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The Use Of Visual Arts As A Window To Diagnosing Medical Pathologies, Katrina A. Bramstedt
The Use Of Visual Arts As A Window To Diagnosing Medical Pathologies, Katrina A. Bramstedt
Katrina A. Bramstedt
Observation is a key step preceding diagnosis, prognostication, and treatment. Careful patient observation is a skill that is learned but rarely explicitly taught. Furthermore, proper clinical observation requires more than a glance; it requires attention to detail. In medical school, the art of learning to look can be taught using the medical humanities and especially visual arts such as paintings and film. Research shows that such training improves not only observation skills but also teamwork, listening skills, and reflective and analytical thinking. Overall, the use of visual arts in medical school curricula can build visual literacy: the capacity to identify …
Toward Developing An Academic Discipline, Tim Brady, Alan J. Stolzer
Toward Developing An Academic Discipline, Tim Brady, Alan J. Stolzer
Alan J. Stolzer
It is not often in the life of an academic or of an academic institution that circumstances coalesce to bring about a new academic discipline. But it happened recently, thus a review of the circumstances may be of interest and potentially instructive. Disciplines are typically characterized as a field of study at institutions of higher learning; they have a definable body of knowledge, scholars who contribute to that body of knowledge, teachers who teach in the field, a community of people who identify with the field, a refereed journal, are often associated with a professional practice and, in many cases, …