Scholarship Spotlight: SLU faculty present "What Do You See? Arts-Based Education to Facilitate Observation and Clinical Reasoning Skills" at the 2021 American Physical Therapy Association's Combined Sections Meeting.
Presented by Chris Anne Sebelski, PT, DPT, PhD, Elissa Claire Held Bradford, PT, PhD, Barbara Lynn Yemm, PT, DPT, Olubukola Gbadegesin, PhD, Cathleen Fleck, PhD, and Ann Marcolina Hayes, PT, DPT, MHS
This presentation at the Virtual CSM2021 is representative of the ongoing teaching and research collaboration between the Program in Physical Therapy and the Department of Fine Arts. The SLU art historians facilitate a deeper “seeing” of fine art which transfer to greater observational skills by the physical therapist students.
Students’ beliefs in their observational skills and their clinical reasoning were improved post-session as determined by pre-post survey data. Qualitative analysis of narrative descriptions of observations yielded the following results: students improved in documentation of the descriptive context and interpretation of the situation. This suggests that transfer of learning was achieved for observation of more static constructs.
The research in the Program in PT with the Fine Arts Department continues. The findings of this study are in alignment with other studies completed in other healthcare disciplines. Arts based education, facilitated by art historians, results in a positive impact on student’s confidence in observation skills.
Learn more about their research on the conference's programming website: https://apta.confex.com/apta/csm2021/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/29963
Story by Kristin Hrasky
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