IMAJ | volume 26
Journal 10, November 2024
pages: 663-664
Division of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Summary
Medical educators often find teaching useful findings on physical examination challenging. Important findings must be easy to remember and applied or they will soon be forgotten by students. The use of elegant, thought-provoking art for teaching examination skills makes learning enjoyable and memorable. Physicians need the ability to quickly perform and incorporate a limited useful physical examination into patient encounters to be good diagnosticians.