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Les Hasards heureux de l’escarpolette, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

delivery and final surveys for this study are now complete, and we restrictions and recognizing a need in our medical community,
look forward to formally analyzing our results and publishing our we have expedited the design of art-based wellness sessions that
findings. We will also be conducting focused interviews with the will be offered initially to residents, again through the expertise
study participants for a critique of the course, and to gain insight of the Agnes Etherington staff and the convenience of virtual
into how the pilot curriculum was received. communication platforms.

Driven by the enthusiasm shown by participants, as well as the Beyond contributing to an innovative and expanding field of
encouraging initial survey results, our research team has made research, this project has fostered collaboration between groups
plans to continue this project under a larger art-based curriculum. of Queen’s University professionals that seldom intersect. We
We hope to branch into further studies that will expand on the look forward to continuing our partnership with not only the
pilot work completed with medical students across other years Agnes Etherington Art Centre, but also Dr. Morehead from the
of medical school, as well as exploring the clinical implications Department of Art History and Art Conservation, and the rest of
of art-based observation by evaluating skills during an Objective the research team including one of our incoming ophthalmology
Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). We have also discussed residents, Dr. Hassan Hazari, who shares Dr. Curtis’s underlying
investigating surgical skill development in resident physicians interest in painting and art appreciation.
through sculpting classes. Due to COVID-19 physical distancing

Vision Rehabilitation Research

Ophthalmology-led: Drs. Mark Bona, Curtis, Hazari, and Campbell, Julia Foster, Karen Eden
Queen’s Collaborators: Drs. Kessler and Johnson
Outside Collaborators: CNIB, Dalhousie and Western Universities .
The multi-focused research program related to vision rehabilita- 300% increase in the number of patients seen with almost 50%
tion has seen the maturation of various projects over the 2019– of those patients seen in the community. Wait times have also
2020 academic year. seen a reduction by 30% compared to previous norms. Effective-
ness in care, as measured by reading speed with versus without
Evaluation of the South East Ontario Vision Rehabilitation Ser- a prescribed assistive device increased by 78%. Furthermore, the
vice pilot project, established to improve vision rehabilitation new service delivery model demonstrated significant patient sat-
service delivery across the region, has yielded a greater than
isfaction as measured by a 20-item questionnaire sampling data

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