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Published online 12 September 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010913-11
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Doctors examine art
Art appreciation class improves student doctors' diagnosis.
"Physicians should be more like Sherlock Holmes," says Irwin Braverman. His new research suggests that art-appreciation classes could teach medical students the sleuthing skills they need: trainee doctors' diagnoses improve after they have learnt how to look at the whole picture.
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