ReviewJournal of graduate medical education2020
Art in Medical Education: A Review.
Review in Journal of graduate medical education, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 82 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect evaluation of integrating art education into medical aesthetics postgraduate training: a single-arm pre-post study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- The Enduring Effects of Medical Humanities on Medical Students: Short- and Long-Term Impacts of 15 Years of Teaching a Medical Humanities Course in a Swedish Medical Degree Program.The Journal of medical humanities · 2026Article
- Colouring Inside the Lines: Why Medical Students Should Be Encouraged to Draw More in Surgical Rotations.The clinical teacher · 2026Article
- Teaching Slow Clinical Observation Through Art: A Museum-Based Innovation in Undergraduate Nursing Education.Perspectives on medical education · 2026Article
- Utilizing short videos as a reflective method for teaching medical ethics concepts: an exciting experience for both students and their teacher.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2026Article
- Validation of the art education in medical education questionnaire (AEMEQ): integrating medical sciences with the humanities.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Influencing factors of art-mediated educational strategies on life attitudes of teaching hospital staff: a quantitative study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- The Eagle Eyes: an Intervention Utilizing Visual Thinking Strategies to Enhance the Observation Skills of Medical Students.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- The association between empathy and artistic practice: a cross-sectional study with medical students.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Outcomes of Art-Based Leadership Development: A Qualitative Metasummary.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Role of arts in women's cancer awareness.Gynecologic oncology reports · 2024Article
- Effects of Arts-Based Pedagogy on Competence Development in Nursing: A Critical Systematic Review.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Review
- Clay modeling as a learning tool for medical trainees in urology: a narrative review and pilot study.Translational andrology and urology · 2024Review
- The Museum as a Shared Space: Developing Contextual and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Arts-Based Education.Advances in medical education and practice · 2024Article
- Prevalence of visual art education in medical school curricula: a national survey of US medical schools.Medical education online · 2023Article
- Extending Arts-Based Interventions in Graduate Medical Education through the Positive Humanities: the Re-FRAME Workshop.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Seeing the Other: How Residents Expand Their Perspective by Learning With the Arts.Journal of graduate medical education · 2023Article
- A Scale Development for Visual Literacy on Health Students and Professionals.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2023Article
- Using Visual Arts Education and Reflective Practice to Increase Empathy and Perspective Taking in Medical Students.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2023Article
- Effects of visual art observation on technical skills in novice healthcare learners: A scoping review.F1000Research · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe 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.
objectiveThis scoping review of the literature aims to describe the available literature on the incorporation of art education in medical school and residency.
methodsPubMed, 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.
resultsVarious 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.
conclusionsThere 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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