Development of visual literacy as an innovative tool for training future doctors in foreign medical universities

The aim of the review article is to describe the way of integrating medicine and art in the educational field of specialized disciplines of foreign medical universities. The relevance of the topic is related to the need for students to develop clinical observation, affecting the accuracy of the preliminary diagnosis in the framework of general clinical research. The appeal to this topic is due to the fact that in the digital era the process of percepting visual information qualitatively changes among representatives of the younger generations, clip thinking is formed, in which there is no ability for prolonged concentration of attention and memorization, the ability to analyze is partially lost. As a result, students do not notice important signs of diseases during external examination, they appeal more to the data of modern instrumental diagnostic methods and feel difficulties in formulating their diagnostic hypotheses. Foreign colleagues see the solution of these problems in the use of works of art in the process of teaching clinical disciplines, actively using strategies of visual thinking and techniques of visual literacy development.