Visual arts in the clinical clerkship: a pilot cluster-randomized, controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Arts 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.

Methods

We 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-g

SUBMITTER: Strohbehn GW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7708096 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature