What's art got to do with it?-Transfer of learning in museum-based health professions education.

Museum-based education for health professionals is a rich and expanding field in which educators engage health professions learners in arts-based activities intentionally designed to support transfer of learning from a museum to a clinical context. Museum-based education for health professionals promotes several key learning outcomes including: mastery of core skills such as observation, interpretation, and communication; cultivating personal insight; fostering appreciation for multiple perspectives; opening avenues to explore social advocacy; and promoting wellness. Following a museum-based activity, translational facilitators guide learners through a debriefing process which supports the discovery of real-world connections to clinical teaching, learning, and care delivery.

Do Medical Students' Narrative Representations of "The Good Doctor" Change Over Time? Comparing Humanism Essays From a National Contest in 1999 and 2013.

Purpose: To explore medical students' conceptions of "the good doctor" at two points in time separated by 14 years.

Method: The authors conducted qualitative analysis of narrative-based essays. Following a constant comparative method, an emergent relational coding scheme was developed which the authors used to characterize 110 essays submitted to the Arnold P.