Vol. 24 No. 2: Special Issue Conference "The art of observation"
Short paper

Adapting Visual Thinking Strategies to Address a Spectrum of Healthcare Audiences: A competency based strategy.

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  • Joel T. Katz,
  • Brooke Di Giovanni Evans
Joel T. Katz
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Brooke Di Giovanni Evans
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/1971-8551/11400

Published 2024-12-06

Keywords

  • the art of observation

Abstract

 The US Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires that training programs teach physicians broad core competencies, some of which are not well suited to either large classroom lectures or high-pressure clinical environments. We sought to create new and more effective methods of teaching some of the more challenging ACGME competencies based on Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). 

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