Observation skills are an essential component of any medical education, aiding doctors during patient exams and in making medical diagnoses, yet several studies have indicated inadequacies in this ...

Interest in integrating the arts and humanities into medical education is not new. Several programs around the country now either offer or require medical students to take classes in the arts or ...

A doctor’s kit has no shortage of tools – stethoscope, tongue depressor and so forth. But what about Victorian paintings? At Yale, they’ve become a crucial part of medical students’ training. For a ...

Can looking at fine art make for better doctors? The Yale School of Medicine thinks so, and has created a workshop where students visit museums to study paintings and then discuss their observations, ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — For first-year students at Yale Medical School, training includes a visit to the Yale Center for British Art, where these future doctors hone their observational skills by examining ...

Tyler Junior College Law Enforcement Academy cadets are honing their observation, perception and communication skills through a collaborative exercise at Tyler Museum of Art. “Part of our academy ...

UW plant pathologist William Stump speaks during a field day at the James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research Extension Center near Lingle. (UW Photo) Picasso probably couldn’t diagnose ...

Our brains can comprehend an image in just 13 milliseconds, according to MIT researchers last week in Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. They believe that we’re seeking concepts to make sense, ...