The “ABCs” of dermatology: using art, bird-watching, and computers to enhance the teaching and learning of dermatology

Mostow, Eliot N.

doi:10.1016/j.clindermatol.2007.10.010

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“…3,4 While most programs utilized art as a vehicle to increase observational skills, other interventions used art to directly depict medical conditions. 31,32 The data were separated into 2 categories: interventions implemented among medical students and interventions implemented among residents. Details on research design, endpoints, and results are outlined in TABLES 1 and 2.…”

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Art in Medical Education: A Review

Dalia

Milam

Rieder

2020

Journal of Graduate Medical Education

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Background The use of fine art in medical education has a long history. Numerous studies have investigated the potential benefits of incorporating art in medical education; however, there are gaps in knowledge regarding the efficacy, methodology, and clinical significance of these studies. Objective This scoping review of the literature aims to describe the available literature on the incorporation of art education in medical school and residency. Methods PubMed, Google Scholar, and MedEDPortal were queried from their inception dates through December 2019. English-language studies providing a detailed methodology and detailed analysis were included. A total of 37 studies were identified. Upon further screening of the studies' methodologies and results, 16 studies describing art education implemented with medical students and 12 studies describing art education implemented with residents were included for final review. Results Various methods of art education exist, including Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), rigorous curricula, and unstructured roundtable discussions with art curators or artistically minded clinicians. Studies range in duration, art media, and type of analysis. Conclusions There has been an increasing effort to incorporate fine art education into medical training, primarily to enhance visual perception skills and empathy. Although there is limited research on its efficacy and wide variations in study methodologies exist, results consistently indicate that participants find the incorporation of art into curricula beneficial. Further research analyzing which methodologies are most likely to yield statistically and clinically significant improvements in visual perception and empathy may lead to increased utilization of this teaching method.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Art in Medical Education: A Review

Dalia

Milam

Rieder

2020

Journal of Graduate Medical Education

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“…4,7 Many authors recommended incorporating visual art programs into medical or professional curricula to improve pattern recognition and other visual skills. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]48 There are several limitations to our study. First, the articles retrieved were from a limited number of databases, including PubMed, Google Scholar, and Science Direct.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…The difference in articles over time may relate to technological changes in society, with progression from a prephotographic/predigital era to the concerns of medicine today, such as physician burnout 4 or lack of student engagement. [2][3][4][5][6]48 Kumar and Jackson emphasized the importance of artwork in the wellness program after noticing the increased use of artwork for personal wellness and stress reduction among the participants. 4,7 Many authors recommended incorporating visual art programs into medical or professional curricula to improve pattern recognition and other visual skills.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Dermatopathology and dermatology are highly visual disciplines relying on the subjective interpretation of physical images, whether as a direct examination of skin lesions or magnified tissue samples. Recent studies have suggested that medical education incorporating visual arts training may help physicians better interpret medical imagery 1–7 . In addition, the authors have attended art‐related sessions at professional society meetings or during residency that stimulated our interest in compiling both the numbers and types of studies examining visual arts in the context of dermatopathology and dermatology.…”

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From moulage to metrics: Bibliometric survey of visual arts in dermatopathology and dermatology

Regmi

Dahiya

2023

J Cutan Pathol

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Background: Both dermatopathology and dermatology are highly visual medical specialties. We performed a bibliometric literature survey of the visual arts in reference to either discipline to better understand how medical literature approaches art within the context of the two specialties. Materials and Methods:We performed a bibliometric analysis of publications found via multiple medical search engines and selected keywords meant to capture art-related publications in dermatopathology and dermatology. Keywords (art, portrait, painting, dermatology, dermatopathology) and keyword combinations were entered into the search engines PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Pubs Hub, and Scopus. Topics of articles, years of publication, countries of origin, and contributing journals were compiled and analyzed.

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“…Moreover, clinical training then teaches to watch and listen. Sometimes birdwatching is like coexisting with art because the avian world is colourful, then focusing on colours and shapes is recognized as especially important in dermatology [28]. We addressed in previous paragraph the question is how jizz can be used in the fast thinking vs. slow thinking system [14], and what trade-offs exist in making decisions based on experience [1].…”

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Jizz in birdwatching activity and clinical practice: how it works and why?

Grimalt¹,

Murawiec²,

Tryjanowski³

2023

Arch Psych Psych

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The world “jizz” is part of the language of birding in the English-speaking nations. It’s meaning is combination of characteristics which identify kind of a bird, but this characteristics may not be distinguished individually. Jizz is described as embodied way of seeing that instantaneously reveals the identity of a birds species, suspending the laborious and meticulous study of an diagnostic characteristics. In medicine there is an idea of “clinical intuition” - making judgments and clinical diagnoses without clear awareness of consecutive stages of reasoning. Intuitive decision making has been found in some cases to improve decisions and eventually lead into better performance than analytic deliberation. Can a certain sudden conclusions that appear in minds of both birdwatchers (about bird species) and medical doctors (established diagnosis), based on the use of an incomplete set of information, be accurate? And how we can use this similarity to understand process of formulating medical diagnoses? In this paper we discuss the phenomena of jizz and “clinical intuition” in the light of theory of brain as a tool of making predictions. According to this view the primary function of the brain is to make predictions about the word, rather than laborious analysis of the stimuli coming in from the environment at each successive moment. That theory according to us can explain both Jizz observed by birdwatchers and clinical intuition in medical practice.

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The “ABCs” of dermatology: using art, bird-watching, and computers to enhance the teaching and learning of dermatology

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References 17 publications

Art in Medical Education: A Review

Art in Medical Education: A Review

From moulage to metrics: Bibliometric survey of visual arts in dermatopathology and dermatology

Jizz in birdwatching activity and clinical practice: how it works and why?

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