It seems that seeing is a skill that the world of art can lend to the world of medicine.
Doctors-in-training who took art classes while in medical school appear to have better skills of observation than their colleagues who have never studied art, according to a research from Harvard Medical School.
'You can look at a face and observe certain aspects of it, like lines on a face, the colour of it, the colour of the eyelids, the colour of the lips.'—Dr. Shah Khoshbin
Dr. Joel Katz and Dr. Shah Khoshbin started a program of elective art classes for medical students at the Boston-based school in 2005.
They released research last week that shows studying art can help students make up to 38 per cent more accurate observations.
"The assumption in the past was that either you know how to look or you don't," Dr. Khoshbin told CBC's Q cultural affairs show on Monday. "This is not true. You can train people to look, educators as well as artists know that."
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/08/18/art-medicine.html
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