Fortalecimiento de las Habilidades de Observación de los Estudiantes de Medicina por Medio del Arte Visual

Abstract

Can the medical history and physical examination be a sufficient source of data in the medical diagnosis? This question is not new and the pressure is increasing to put aside clinical evaluation to use techniques that can demonstrate functional or morphological alterations in an early and detailed way, but that are expensive and require high technology. Medical educators have reflected on the effect of this situation on the human quality of the service provided and on the containment of health costs with greater emphasis on the current conditions derived from the pandemic; concluding that it is a priority to rescue the use of clinical skills. These have in visual observation a fundamental input of the physical examination that can generate relevant data for the diagnosis, but there is evidence of their limited development during medical studies. Several medical schools have found a novel and successful way to include educational strategies based on visual art. In our country there is no documentation of the use of similar activities, so the present exploratory study and approach was proposed quasi-experimental with cross-sectional design, aimed at strengthening the visual observation skills of medical students through a learning strategy using art