Change the way you communicate with your PATIENTS, your TEAMS, and YOURSELF! Training Our Eyes, Minds and Hearts: VTS for Healthcare Professionals strengthens humanistic and analytic competencies and can transform medical education, patient care, teamwork, equity, and professional growth.
This course offers longitudinal, in-depth training and coaching in the premier arts-based facilitation method, Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), and is designed specifically to improve health professions education and clinical outcomes. Numerous peer review studies demonstrate that VTS develops observation, communication and critical thinking skills. It has also been shown to enhance empathic capacities and tolerance for ambiguity. The course offers VTS@Work® certification if participants demonstrate proficiency as facilitators and meet all requirements. The certification rubric is evidence-based and focused on VTS application within workflow.
We welcome clinicians, educators, and students of all stripes, as well as museum educators keen to partner with healthcare organizations.
You will achieve proficiency in VTS facilitation applied to healthcare, including:
-Deepening skills in observation, active listening, paraphrasing, suspending judgment, sustaining inquiry, and creating psychological safety;
-Applying these skills to communicate, collaborate, teach, and lead more effectively within clinical workflow and be equipped to support your colleagues to do the same;
-Designing and leading arts-based sessions at your institutions to meet your local organizational and curricular needs;
-Developing a detailed action plan for your ongoing integration of VTS techniques and mindsets.
-Cultivating partnerships and friendships with like-minded colleagues throughout the world.
For more details and to register, please visit the course website.
Please do not hesitate to reach out with questions.
What Course Alumni Have to Say:
“Visual Thinking Strategies’ (VTS) direct applicability to clinical medicine and medical education cannot be overstated. It is a profound teaching tool that encourages deep thinking, requires active listening, hones observation skills, illuminates bias, and fosters an openness to possibility. VTS has opened avenues of inquiry that would have otherwise been missed in the day-to-day hustle of academic medicine and it has strengthened my relationship with patients.”
-John David Ike, MD, MSc.
“This was a phenomenal course…that connects you to a community of educators and access to experts. This course provided rigorous practice and introduced many new approaches to using VTS in my work in medical education.”
-Andrea Kalus, MD
“This is the type of CME that you actually need if you’re practicing medicine in the US. The system is broken but you don’t have to be.”
– Dr. Anson Koshy