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From Canvas to Clinic: Med Students Study Art to Sharpen Critical Thinking
['Mike Cummings']
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In 2013, while a first-year student at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), Dr. Robert Rock found inspiration in the university’s museum collections.
He had participated in a workshop at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), in which medical students were asked to study a pre-selected set of works and provide detailed and accurate descriptions of what they saw — a test of their ability to similarly examine patients.
“I definitely geeked out,” said Rock, who had studied art history as an undergraduate.
students at the School of Medicine to observe and interpret artworks at the Yale University Art Gallery and YCBA as a way to discuss bias in healthcare, health inequities, and power dynamics in medicine.
As part of the evening, attendees had the chance to experience the methodology and impact of “Making the Invisible Visible” through 30-minute interactive tours in the galleries, led by medical-student facilitators.
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