Visual thinking strategies in medicine
Institutional Communication Service
27 August 2024
Vincenza Ferrara will explain the technique called ‘Visual Thinking Strategies’. When used by doctors and medical students, it improves their diagnostic and team-building skills. This didactic method stimulates a group discussion on a work of art, encouraging the viewer to observe more attentively, gaining a deeper understanding and a precise analysis of what the work contains. The consequence is an increase in cognitive skills, and in our analytical and critical capabilities to what is in front of us. Speaking as a discussant, Fabrizio Consorti will emphasise the educational potential of the technique for medical students.
Save the date: Monday, 7 October 2024 at 6 pm in the Multipurpouse room, East Campus Lugano (Via La Santa, Lugano-Viganello)
Speaker: Vincenza Ferrara, Sapienza University of Rome; Associazione VTSItalia (IT)
Discussants: Fabrizio Consorti, Teaching Quality and Innovation Group (QuID), Sapienza University of Rome; Past-president SIPeM (IT)
Vincenza Ferrara
Art Historian, former Director of the Art and Medical Humanities Laboratory - Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, Highly Qualified Expert - Adjunct Professor with Special Pedagogy Master’s Degree Course in Nursing Sciences ‘A’ - Sapienza University of Rome. An expert in cultural heritage and learning, she has been conducting research since 2014 in the field of education in the medical and health sector, in schools and for the promotion of inclusion and well-being using art.
Fabrizio Consorti
Physician, general surgeon, researcher at the Sapienza University of Rome. Teaching of clinical methodology and surgery in medical and nursing degree courses Responsible for Erasmus exchanges President of the Italian Society of Medical Pedagogy (SIPeM) until 2018. As a nationally recognised expert, he has led and continues to lead Faculty Development events for Sapienza and many Italian courses.