To assess the effectiveness of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) in medical education curricula, a pretest-posttest experimental study design was used to evaluate the impact of participating in VTS workshops on first-year medical students. A total of forty-one intervention and sixty comparative students completed the study which included the analysis of clinical images followed by a measurement of word count, length of time analyzing images, and quality of written observations of clinical images. VTS training increased the total number of words used to describe clinical images, the time spent analyzing the images, and the number of clinically relevant observations.

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视觉思维策略 (VTS) 对临床图像分析的影响：一年级医学生 VTS 的事前研究

为了评估视觉思维策略 (VTS) 在医学教育课程中的有效性，使用前后测实验研究设计来评估参加 VTS 研讨会对一年级医学生的影响。共有 41 名干预和 60 名比较学生完成了研究，其中包括临床图像分析，随后测量字数、分析图像的时间长度以及临床图像的书面观察质量。VTS 训练增加了用于描述临床图像的单词总数、分析图像所花费的时间以及临床相关观察的数量。