Grant

Poster

It is the hope that each year we will be able to help bring a noted academic in this field to HSC to make a presentation, work with the Steering Committee and interact directly with students. In 2003-4, the visit of Dr. Richard Selzer, which was a great success, was supported by this program.

When we incorporated an art observation session in the Foundations of Doctoring curriculum, 25 or half of the first year physical therapy students participated with the second year medical students. All 50 of the first year students’ observational skills were pre and post tested using static and moving images of patients with neuro-muscular-skeletal deficits. The experimental and control groups will be compared using raw scores from predetermined observational criteria.

This study will be replicated with 2nd year PT students. In the future, we will replicate the study substituting moving images as part of the didactic Art in Medicine training sessions.

It is the hope that each year we will be able to help bring a noted academic in this field to HSC to make a presentation, work with the Steering Committee and interact directly with students.  In 2003-4, the visit of Dr. Richard Selzer, which was a great success, was supported by this program.