TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) on the Analysis of Clinical Images
T2 - A Pre-Post Study of VTS in First-Year Medical Students
AU - Agarwal, Gauri G.
AU - McNulty, Meaghan
AU - Santiago, Katerina M.
AU - Torrents, Hope
AU - Caban-Martinez, Alberto J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation CREATE Grant (GR009521)Funding.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - To assess the effectiveness of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) in medical education curricula, a pretest–posttest experimental study design was used to evaluate the impact of participating in VTS workshops on first-year medical students. A total of forty-one intervention and sixty comparative students completed the study which included the analysis of clinical images followed by a measurement of word count, length of time analyzing images, and quality of written observations of clinical images. VTS training increased the total number of words used to describe clinical images, the time spent analyzing the images, and the number of clinically relevant observations.
AB - To assess the effectiveness of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) in medical education curricula, a pretest–posttest experimental study design was used to evaluate the impact of participating in VTS workshops on first-year medical students. A total of forty-one intervention and sixty comparative students completed the study which included the analysis of clinical images followed by a measurement of word count, length of time analyzing images, and quality of written observations of clinical images. VTS training increased the total number of words used to describe clinical images, the time spent analyzing the images, and the number of clinically relevant observations.
KW - Medical humanities
KW - VTS
KW - Visual arts in medical education
KW - Visual thinking strategies
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U2 - 10.1007/s10912-020-09652-4
DO - 10.1007/s10912-020-09652-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 32820413
AN - SCOPUS:85089701823
VL - 41
SP - 561
EP - 572
JO - The Journal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics
JF - The Journal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics
SN - 0882-6498
IS - 4
ER -