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The most important aspect of participating in the visual arts training exercise was
JCSM and its collections are available to you in many ways. Book a docent-led tour, bring students over on your own to use the galleries for instruction, or send students over by themselves for a special assignment. You can request works from the permanent collection to use in research and presentation, as well as have a curator lead all or part of your class. To book a tour, or to let us know to expect you and your students, contact Debbie Frojo at jcsmtours@ auburn.edu, or call 844-3486. Please contact us at least two weeks in advance. If you would like to incorporate a museum project into your class, contact Scott Bishop, Curator of Academic and Public Programs, at bishogs@auburn.edu, or call 844-7014.
verbally trying to describe what I was seeing. I believe this technique can be utilized
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when analyzing radiographs.
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If I am struggling to find
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abnormalities, maybe if I just verbally describe what I am seeing, I will come to a conclusion.
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TEACHING SCIENCE OF RADIOLOGY THROUGH
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here may be nothing more important to a veterinary radiologist than developing visual skills in order to make determinations about a medical issue an animal may have. To teach students how to hone their visual skills, Dr. Rachel Moon, an assistant clinical professor of radiology in the Department of Clinical Sciences, partnered with the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University to bring art and science into focus. Students volunteered to spend a Saturday morning at the museum, examining works of art on display. Students were asked to spend time observing selected pieces of art, objectively describe the visual details they saw in each, and use these details to interpret the artwork. Once students practiced visual exam skills, they, along with Dr. Moon and Scott Bishop, curator of academic and public programs at the museum, went into a classroom to discuss their findings and their interpretations. At the end of the session, students applied that newly developed skill set to examine radiographs and other diagnostic images, applying what they could see, the objective visual details, to interpret the images. “Interpretation is based on our actual experience,” Dr. Moon said. “There can be a lot of different interpretations based on a central theme.