You wouldn't expect to find young doctors at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania.
But that's where we found a group of residents from Abington Memorial Hospital.
They were there for a special lesson - not about brush strokes, or color placement.
It's all because mentors, like Dr. David Gary Smith, noticed doctors-in-training don't always catch obvious symptoms in patients.
He told us, "It's kind of shocking at times, how things with neon signs pointing at them are missed by good clinicians."
So, Dr. Sheldon Weintraub, a retired podiatrist - and volunteer at the foundation - helps them sharpen their observation skills by studying the way Dr. Albert Barnes assembled the art and artifacts.
Dr. Weintraub says, "Each piece of metal, al of the furniture, and all of the paintings go together, using the principles of light, line, color, and space."
As he led the students through the galleries, Dr. Weintraub pointed out a painting of a women with an empty bird cage.
But prominently placed on the wall above the paintings is a metal bird.
Leaving one gallery, he noted a painting depicting hell on one wall. In the next gallery, directly on the other side of the wall was a painting of heaven.
Dr. Weintraub says that in medicine, even little things can be important.
"If a patient is leaning forward, they might have asthma, maybe not, but maybe. If their skin is a little purplish, they might have a vascular problem, he says.
The young doctors appreciate the exercises in observation. In fact, some of them who went on the tour last year were back again.
Dr. Deepthi Bommadevara says the lessons remind her medicine is about healing people.
"Nowadays, we're so focused on looking at numbers and images, versus people. but this brings you back to the whole point of being a physician," she said.
Dr. Rushang Patel was also back for a second year. Before his first visit, he said he would rush through museums while on family trips. Now he goes through much slower, examining items much more closely.
Dr. Weintraub hopes to expand the sessions to all the medical schools in the area, and perhaps to the dental and podiatry schools.
He would also like to bring new police detectives there, so they'll be better observers at crime scenes.
