Artwork can sharpen medical diagnostic skills, Yale researchers report.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-5 September 2001-YALE UNIVERSITY: Artwork can sharpen medical diagnostic skills, Yale researchers report (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04092001 New Haven, Conn. -- Four years after starting a tutorial designed to improve medical students' diagnostic and observational skills with artwork, Yale researchers have proven their theory in a new study published in the September 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

"Doctors have to be taught to pick up on details that are often overlooked and first-year medical students who took this class improved their observational skills by 10 percent," said Irwin Braverman, M.D., professor of dermatology at Yale School of Medicine. "With heightened observational...