Training the eye, virtually: adapting an art in medicine curriculum for on-line learning.

ABSTRACT: Training the Eye: Improving the Art of Physical Diagnosis is an elective fine art-based medical humanities course at Harvard Medical School held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that aims to improve skills of observation. Due to COVID-19, this curriculum was converted from in-person to a virtual format for the first time in 2020. Students enrolled in the course prior to the pandemic and completed one session in person before transitioning unexpectedly to nine remote sessions through Zoom. Students were surveyed anonymously and TAs and faculty were interviewed regarding their perceptions of the strengths, weaknesses and future preferences of the virtual arts education at the course completion. Strengths identified in the virtual platform were being able to include participants irrespectiv

SUBMITTER: Srivastava AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9366826 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature