Visual Arts + Medicine Project

ExplorArte offers programs that employ the visual arts for the development of observation skills, resulting in the reduction of clinical misdiagnoses and the improvement of comprehensive patient care. General objectives are to introduce the visual arts and the Visual Thinking Strategies in training programs for doctors, medical students and health personnel; to promote the development of rigorous observation and perception skills, to improve clinical judgment and diagnosis; to encourage creative thinking; to enhance effective communication; to strengthen the aesthetic ties between the visual arts and the sciences; to use the visual arts to work on emotions, uncertainty, ambiguity, the unknown, the unfinished, discomfort, prejudices; to introduce the museum as an institution at the service of people.