Visual Intelligence Education as a Tool for Enhancing Medical Students' Self-Perception of Communication Skills.

Objective: Visual arts-based exposure and training are effective tools to enhance medical education. The visual arts can increase emotional intelligence and critical thinking skills. This study, conducted at Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSoM) and the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, was designed to measure the effect of a visual arts elective course on medical students' self-perception of their communication skills.

Movement for multiple sclerosis: a multi-site partnership for practice and research.

While dance programs for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been developed globally over the past two decades, dance programs for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) are just emerging. This article introduces three dance for MS programs and a multi-site partnership that was developed to evaluate and advance a model for dance for MS programs. The program partners convened over 2 days to share program models, consider current and planned program evaluations, and identify unique challenges and promising practices for delivering safe and effective dance for MS programs.

Taking care of the researcher -a nature and art-related activity retreat: Sharing natural space puts humanity into perspective.

Background: There has been an insufficient amount of studies that examine how academic working life of researchers can be supported.

Objective: We examine the use of a nature and art-related activity retreat designed for researchers. The purpose was to evaluate if and how researchers perceived different workshop experiences set in nature as meaningful and important with regards to their self-care.

Examining the artist-patient relationship in palliative care. A thematic analysis of artist reflections on encounters with palliative patients.

Background: Although therapeutic arts are used in the palliative care setting, little has been described about what happens during the artist-patient encounter and how these interactions can complement and integrate into the interdisciplinary model of palliative care. The objective of this study is to describe the artist-patient encounter and how artists can function in the palliative interdisciplinary model of care.

Methods: Authors reviewed 229 reports written by artists about encounters with palliative patients, and performed thematic analysis on 95.

Visual intelligence education as an innovative interdisciplinary approach for advancing communication and collaboration skills in nursing practice.

Background: Recognizing the relationship of keen observation to communication, critical thinking, and leadership in evidence-based literature, educators have expanded the use of art museums to augment visual intelligence skills. The purpose of this pilot intervention was to evaluate an innovative, interdisciplinary approach for integrating visual intelligence skills into an advanced communications and collaboration course.

Method: Collaborating with museum educators, the intervention for doctoral students was conducted at the National Gallery of Art.