Creative Collaborations with Art, Music and Engineering: Improving the Perceptual Abilities of Novice Clinician

Abstract

Mastery of the arts of inspection/observation, listening/auscultation, and touching/palpation is an essential skill for health-care providers. This presentation will demonstrate our innovative pedagogy and its impact on the physical examination skills of novice clinicians. We will introduce the audience to the use of art and visual training on observational and diagnostic reasoning skills, and demonstrate our music auditory training protocol. We will also detail our research findings related to students\u27 increased competence in detecting of heart, lung and bowel sounds. Finally, students and faculty from the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) will detail our newest extension into the field of palpation and their experience creating a model to improve the perceptual skills of our students