title: A curricular addition using art to enhance reflection on professional values.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Art and humanities can enhance undergraduate medical education curricular objectives. Most commonly, art is used to help students learn observational skills, such as medical interviewing and physical diagnosis. Educators concurrently struggle to find ways to meaningfully teach professional values within crowded curricula.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This curriculum aimed to combine art and reflection to actively convey tenets of medical professionalism.
  
  
  METHODS
  Internal medicine clerkship at a single institution.
  
  
  METHODS
  Third-year students.
  
  
  METHODS
  Students reviewed an online module describing attributes of medical professionalism before completing a 4-step written exercise stimulated by viewing a work of art and based on a critical incident from their own experiences. A faculty member reviewed the essays and facilitated small group discussion to normalize the students' emotional responses and generalize their observations to others.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The curriculum was acceptable to students and enthusiastically received by faculty. Efforts to assess the effects and durability of the exercise on student behavior are ongoing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Artwork can enhance student reflection on professional values. This model efficiently and creatively meets curricular professionalism objectives.
authors: Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors: Lynn A
authors: LA
authors: Byars
authors: Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors: Mark B
authors: MB
authors: Stephens
authors: Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.
authors: Steven J
authors: SJ
authors: Durning
authors: University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical School, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA 70121.
authors: Gerald D
authors: GD
authors: Denton
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001154:Art; D002140:California; D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000379:methods; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education; D008297:Male; D000068616:Professionalism; D012945:Social Values; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods