Trial reportBMC medical education2020
Visual arts in the clinical clerkship: a pilot cluster-randomized, controlled trial.
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- Art Interventions to Mitigate Burnout in Health Care Professionals: A Systematic Review.The Permanente journal · 2023Pooled it
- Reflecting on Uncertainty Tolerance in Student Pharmacists Following an Inpatient Rounding Simulation: A Pilot Mixed-Methods Study.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Visual Art-Based Training Improves Medical Students' Radiologic Labeling Skills by Improving Their Contrast Sensitivity: A Prospective, Controlled Study.Medical science educator · 2025Article
- Empathy and tolerance of ambiguity in medical students and doctors participating in art-based observational training at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: a before-and-after studyJournal of educational evaluation for health professions · 2025Article
- Addressing psychological resilience and its determinants among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a three-wave longitudinal study in Shandong Province, China.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The association between empathy and artistic practice: a cross-sectional study with medical students.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Developing as a Physician: Visual Arts in Medical Education.Neurology. Education · 2024Article
- Exploring levels of empathy and assertiveness in final year physiotherapy students during clinical placements.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- The Companion Curriculum: medical students' perceptions of the integration of humanities within medical education.Canadian medical education journal · 2023Article
- Quantitative metrics and psychometric scales in the visual art and medical education literature: a narrative review.Medical education online · 2022Review
- Improving uncertainty tolerance in medical students: A scoping review.Medical education · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundArts exposure is associated with positive psychological constructs. To date, no randomized, controlled studies have integrated art into clinical medical education or measured its effects on positive psychological constructs or educational outcomes. In this study, we assessed the possibility and potential benefits of integrating visual arts education into a required internal medicine (IM) clinical clerkship.
methodsWe conducted a controlled trial in an academic healthcare system with an affiliated art museum. IM students were assigned to one of three interventions: museum-based arts (n = 11), hospital-based arts (n = 10), or hospital-based conventional education (n = 13). Arts groups explored empathy, resilience, and compassion in works of art during facilitator-guided discussions. We assessed pre- and post-intervention measures of empathy, mindfulness, tolerance of ambiguity, and grit and tracked National Board of Medical Examiners IM shelf exam performance to capture changes in educational outcomes. Focus group discussions with participants in the arts-based interventions were performed at the study's conclusion.
resultsArts education was successfully integrated into a busy clinical clerkship in both hospital and art museum settings. Focus group participants reported increased implicit bias cognizance and time for reflection, but no significant differences in psychometric or educational outcomes were identified. While most students felt positively toward the experience; some experienced distress from missed clinical time.
conclusionsThis pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of integrating visual arts education into the clerkship. Although observable quantitative differences in measures of positive psychological constructs and educational outcomes were not found, qualitative assessment suggested benefits as well as the feasibility of bringing fine arts instruction into the clinical space. A larger, multi-center study is warranted.
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