Art courses are now offered to medical students in medical schools in the US to help improve their observation and diagnostic skills, reported The Boston Globe.
Dr Joel Katz, an internist at an American hospital, runs art courses for medical students and wrote about a study that showed medical students' ability to make accurate observations increased after completing the art course while the control group who did not take the course did not change. He said that doctors' physical examination skills are declining and many rely on technology to do their work. He believes that art class will train students to look more carefully at patients for clues and do not make assumptions about what they see.
Source: "Formal Art Observation Training Improves Medical Students’ Visual Diagnostic Skills" Journal of General Internal Medicine 2008; 23(7) : 991-7
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