Learning through Art in Medical Education

Abstract

Medical Humanities approach is becoming an important action in the health curriculum. Art can play a central role in the training of care staff for the development of skills and for the humanization of the therapeutic path. The application of art as a tool for learning and its historical relationship with medicine can be a valid support for the development of skills such as observation, active listening, problem solving and empathy, useful for improving the profession and the relationship with the patient. It is possible to rediscover the link between art, medicine, and care to help health professionals to improve their activities and resilience. Particular methods such as that of the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) can help health students and professionals to become better actors in the care context.

Skills Development through Virtual Art-Based Learning: Learning Outcomes of an Advanced Training Program for Project Managers

“…Aside from primary and secondary education [54][55][56][57][58], art-based learning has been discussed and empirically underpinned for various professional disciplines such as medical education [59][60][61][62][63], nursing education [30,[64][65][66], pedagogics [67][68][69][70], and management education [29,33,39,[71][72][73][74][75].…”

Possible marfanoid habitus of Cesare Alessandro Scaglia di Verrua evidenced in portraits of Sir Anthony van Dyck?

“…Iconodiagnosis is the discipline that combines a medical and humanistic approach to provide a heuristic insight into the historical moment represented in the work of art by overlaying a presumable pathophysiological context. The concept of iconodiagnosis, first introduced in 1983 by a Harvard psychiatrist Anneliese Alma Pontius (Pontius, 1983) was later embraced by many medical doctors (e.g., Als et al, 2002; Ashrafian, 2018; Benedicenti et al, 2017; Bianucci et al, 2016; Bukvic & Elling, 2015; Charlier, 2007; Emery, 1996; Kluger, 2019) who recognized it as “an enjoyable exercise” of clinical reasoning (Kluger, 2020) and an invaluable tool in medical education (Ferrara, 2021). Here we use the iconodiagnostic approach to analyze two portraits of the Italian cleric and diplomat Cesare Alessandro Scaglia di Verrua made by Flemish Baroque artist Sir Anthony van Dyck exhibited at the National Gallery in London.…”