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SOMGEN 213

The Art of Observation: Enhancing Clinical Skills Through Visual Analysis

UNITS:1
GRADING:Medical Satisfactory/No Credit
LEVEL:Graduate
GER:—

Offers medical students the opportunity to enhance their observational and descriptive abilities by analyzing works of art in the Stanford museums. Working with the Cantor Arts Center staff and Stanford Art History PhD candidates, students spend time in each session actively looking at and describing works in the gallery. Discussion with medical school faculty follows, providing a clinical correlate to the gallery session. Classes interrogate a different theme of medical observation and clinical practice and includes opportunities for an applied clinical session in the hospital with course-affiliated physicians.

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Sections

1 Term
Workshop 1Open
ID: 14506
0 / 35 enrolled
DAYS:Wednesday
TIME:11 AM – 1 PM
LOCATION:TBD
INSTRUCTOR:
Rama, Asheen, Toomer, Lauren, Rodriguez, Samuel
1unit

SOMGEN 213: The Art of Observation: Enhancing Clinical Skills Through Visual Analysis

1 units · Medical Satisfactory/No Credit

Offers medical students the opportunity to enhance their observational and descriptive abilities by analyzing works of art in the Stanford museums. Working with the Cantor Arts Center staff and Stanford Art History PhD candidates, students spend time in each session actively looking at and describing works in the gallery. Discussion with medical school faculty follows, providing a clinical correlate to the gallery session. Classes interrogate a different theme of medical observation and clinical practice and includes opportunities for an applied clinical session in the hospital with course-affiliated physicians.

Offered in Winter 2027 at Stanford University.

Winter 2027 sections

  • Workshop — Wednesday 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM — Rama, Asheen, Toomer, Lauren, Rodriguez, Samuel (Graduate)

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