title: Can visual arts training improve physician performance?
abstract: Clinical educators use medical humanities as a means to improve patient care by training more self-aware, thoughtful, and collaborative physicians. We present three examples of integrating fine arts - a subset of medical humanities - into the preclinical and clinical training as models that can be adapted to other medical environments to address a wide variety of perceived deficiencies. This novel teaching method has promise to improve physician skills, but requires further validation.
authors.affiliation: Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Joel T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.affiliation: Boston, MA.
authors.forename: Shahram
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khoshbin
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D004324:Drama; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D006126:Group Processes; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006809:Humanities / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D009144:Museums; D010151:Paintings; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking; D014796:Visual Perception