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Maxwell F Lydiatt1, William M Lydiatt2
1Third-year medical student pursuing psychiatry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Abstract:
Medical and especially surgical teaching stresses the importance of careful observation, developing tolerance for ambiguity, and cultivating empathy for patients' and colleagues' experiences of receiving and giving health care. Portraiture is defined by portraitist Mark Gilbert as a collaborative process between subject and artist; sitting is as critical to this process as painting or drawing. This article draws upon the second author's work with Gilbert to examine how portraiture can motivate key teaching and learning goals in health professions education by facilitating learners' explorations of their own and others' biases, limitations, and approaches to gathering information from and about a source (eg, a subject or a patient).
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