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How Visual Arts-Based Education Can Promote Clinical Excellence
Margaret S Chisolm1, Margot Kelly-Hedrick2, Scott M Wright3
1M.S. Chisolm is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7424-919X .
Summary
Arts-based education enhances health professions training by improving clinical skills and fostering personal growth. Visual Thinking Strategies exemplify how art pedagogy cultivates essential qualities for clinical excellence.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Arts in Medicine
- Health Professions Education
Background:
- A growing movement integrates arts and humanities into health professions education.
- Arts-based teaching offers benefits beyond fundamental clinical skills like observation and critical thinking.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review how visual arts-based education promotes clinical excellence.
- To highlight the transformative potential of arts in healthcare learning.
Main Methods:
- Review of literature on visual arts-based education in health professions.
- Detailed description of the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) method.
Main Results:
- Visual arts education enhances communication, interpersonal skills, professionalism, and humanism.
- It improves diagnostic acumen, clinical reasoning, and passion for medicine.
- Visual Thinking Strategies serve as a key example of effective arts-based pedagogy.
Conclusions:
- Visual arts-based education is a powerful tool for achieving clinical excellence in healthcare professionals.
- Integrating arts pedagogy transforms learners and enhances patient care.
- Visual Thinking Strategies offer a practical model for implementing arts-based learning in medical education.
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