{"id":63429,"date":"2017-09-14T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63429"},"modified":"2017-09-14T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T20:08:00","slug":"fcd-why-doctors-and-cops-are-taking-art-observation-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63429","title":{"rendered":"(FCD) Why Doctors And Cops Are Taking Art Observation Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-reactid=\"288\">\n<p>Looking at art isn\u2019t just a pleasurable way to spend a few hours. It also has real benefits for professionals who are far afield from the art world, from detectives to doctors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-reactid=\"293\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2017-09\/uops-acc090617.php\">A new study from the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s medical school<\/a>\u00a0suggests that taking art observation classes could sharpen\u00a0medical students\u2019 visual analysis skills. This is important because the ability to correctly read and interpret images like X-rays and other kinds of scans\u00a0is vital in the process of diagnosis\u2013one that beginner medical students are often lacking, at least partially because it\u2019s a skill medical schools don\u2019t teach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The study, published by the\u00a0American Academy of Ophthalmology, focuses specifically on medical students studying ophthalmology\u2013the medical field focused on the eyes\u2013because so much of that discipline relies on doctors using observation to examine and diagnose patients.\u00a0For the study, 18\u00a0first-year medical students took art observation classes, where they had six-hour-and-a-half sessions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, while a control group also composed of 18 first-yearmedical students did not. None of the students had prior art training&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/90139788\/why-doctors-and-cops-are-taking-art-observation-classes\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at art isn\u2019t just a pleasurable way to spend a few hours. It also has real benefits for professionals who are far afield from the art world, from detectives to doctors. A new study from the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63429\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,111,104,578],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-education","category-health-medicine","category-policefire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63431,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63429\/revisions\/63431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}