Increase in Sharing of Stressful Situations by Medical Trainees through Drawing Comics
Discussion. Depicting a stressful situation may be beneficial for trainees who drew an experience they had never shared before. Providing trainees with the opportunity to externalize their experience and create a community for sharing tough experiences may be one way to reduce trainee stress and burnout. (Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 3, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Picturing the Institution of Social Death: Visual Rhetorics of Postwar Asylum Expos é Photography
AbstractThis paper examines how photography shaped the American public ’s perception of psychiatric hospitals during the immediate post-WWII period. I will analyze photographs that appeared in popular exposé articles of that period and that used photography as a visual aid for disclosing the poor conditions of state hospitals, intending to promote reform efforts foc used on turning antiquated asylums into modern hospitals. Existing scholarship has mentioned how these photographs had a significant influence on shaping the public’s view of asylum conditions. Through a close examination of these photographs, I will argue...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 3, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Increase in Sharing of Stressful Situations by Medical Trainees through Drawing Comics
Discussion. Depicting a stressful situation may be beneficial for trainees who drew an experience they had never shared before. Providing trainees with the opportunity to externalize their experience and create a community for sharing tough experiences may be one way to reduce trainee stress and burnout. (Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 3, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Doctored Images: Enacting Pain-Work in John Berger and Jean Mohrs A Fortunate Man (1967)
AbstractThis essay argues that Berger and Mohr sA Fortunate Man (1967) comprising social observation and photographs of the rural practitioner, Dr. Sassall and his patients enacts an embodied, intersubjective empathy called pain-work. The book enacts pain-work through two strategies. Firstly, by conflating three ways of seeing Bergers observa tion, Mohrs photography, and Sassalls medical gaze it shows that the clinical encounter embodies objective vision through intersubjective pain. Secondly, it employs the concepts of recognition and witnessing to show how the subjectivity of the physician is distributed ...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Voices from the Front Lines: An Analysis of Physicians Reflective Narratives about Flaws with the System
In this study, we aimed to understand the nature of the system flaws that physicians identified in their published narratives and to explore their self-repre sentation as agents of change. We reviewed all reflective narratives published in four medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, CMAJ, Annals IM) between January 2015 and December 2017 (n?=?282). By consensus, we identified those that addressed system flaws (n?=?87). Using content and narrative analysis , we analyzed the types of flaws and the physicians orientation to the flawed system. We identified seven recurring system flawsfive related to medical culture: failures of comm...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Leonardo Da Vinci s Archival of the Dermatologic Condition
AbstractThe interconnection of scientific studies and art represented by Leonardo Da Vinci s (14521519) portraiture accentuates his role in documenting and archiving dermatologic conditions. His anatomical dissections, sketches, and paintings, including portraits, were all a means to observe, portray, and understand the nuances of the human body. In two of his most discussed portrai ts,Ginevra de Benci (1474-1478) andElisabetta del Giocondo, the Mona Lisa (1503-1506), Leonardo sexecution of the exterior anatomy is so precise that he may have illustrated manifestations of disease that allow contemporary researchers to...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Confronting the Hidden Curriculum: A Four-Year Integrated Course in Ethics and Professionalism Grounded in Virtue Ethics
We describe a virtue ethics approach and its application in a four-year, integrated, longitudinal, and required undergraduate medical education course that attempts to address some of the challenges of the hidden curriculum and minimize some of its adverse effects on learners. We discuss how a curriculum grounded in virtue ethics strives to have the practical effect of allowing students to focus on their professional identity as physicians in training rather than merely on knowledge and skills acquisition. This orientation, combined with a student-generated curriculum, is designed to prepare students to identify and face c...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
The Health Benefits of Autobiographical Writing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
AbstractA large body of experimental evidence in the empirical sciences shows that writing about life experiences can be beneficial for mental and physical health. While empirical data regarding the health benefits of writing interventions have been collected in numerous studies in psychology and biomedicine, this literature has remained almost entirely disconnected from scholarship in the humanities and cognitive neuropsychology. In this paper, I review the literature from psychological and biomedical writing interventions, connect these findings to views from philosophy, cognitive neuropsychology and narratology and argu...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Screenplays and Screenwriting as an Innovative Teaching Tool in Medical Ethics Education
AbstractInnovation in ethics pedagogy has continued to evolve and incorporate other forms of storytelling aimed at improving student engagement and learning. The use of bioethics narratives in feature-length films, medical television shows, or short clips in the classroom has a well-established history. In parallel, screenplays present an opportunity for an active approach to ethical engagement. We argue that screenplays and screenwriting provide a rich supplement to current medical ethics teaching and serve as a strong form of reflective learning. (Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Going Beyond the Data: Using Testimonies to Humanize Pedagogy on Black Health
AbstractWhen health professions learners ’ primary pedagogical experience of Black people and how they become patients is through statistics, it becomes very easy for learners to think of Black people as data points rather than as individuals whose health is often at the mercy of racist institutions. When the human dimension of Black peo ple’s health is ignored, specifically the ways that poor health affects individual wellbeing, one of the barriers to proper health for Black patients is how to be seen and considered as a part of a larger problem of systemic racism and institutional injustices as well as individuals wh...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Reflective Writing about Near-Peer Blogs: A Novel Method for Introducing the Medical Humanities in Premedical Education
This study proposes that medical student blogs are novel pedagogical tools for fostering peer-to-peer learning in academic medicine and are currently underutilized as a near-peer resource for premedical students to learn about the medical profession. To evaluate the pedagogical utility of medical student blogs for introducing core themes in the medical humanities, the authors conducted qualitative analysis of one hundred seventy-six reflective essays by baccalaureate premedical students written in response to medical student-authored narrative blog posts. Using an iterative thematic approach, the authors identified common ...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Doctored Images: Enacting “Pain-Work” in John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man (1967)
AbstractThis essay argues that Berger and Mohr ’sA Fortunate Man (1967) – comprising social observation and photographs of the rural practitioner, Dr. Sassall and his patients – enacts an embodied, intersubjective empathy called “pain-work.” The book enacts “pain-work” through two strategies. Firstly, by conflating three ways of seeing – Berger’s observa tion, Mohr’s photography, and Sassall’s medical gaze – it shows that the clinical encounter embodies objective vision through intersubjective pain. Secondly, it employs the concepts of recognition and witnessing to show how the subjectivity of the p...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Voices from the Front Lines: An Analysis of Physicians ’ Reflective Narratives about Flaws with the ‘System’
In this study, we aimed to understand the nature of the system flaws that physicians identified in their published narratives and to explore their self-repre sentation as agents of change. We reviewed all reflective narratives published in four medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, CMAJ, Annals IM) between January 2015 and December 2017 (n = 282). By consensus, we identified those that addressed system flaws (n = 87). Using content and narrative analysis , we analyzed the types of flaws and the physicians’ orientation to the flawed system. We identified seven recurring system flaws—five related to medical culture: fail...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Medical Education for What?: Neoliberal Fascism Versus Social Justice
This article focuses on three movements that are challenging medical education orthodoxy: 1) primary health care 2) the medical humanities and 3) “Study Up your Town” medicine. How can we create a radical health pedagogy – one that draws the links between several pandemics raging across the planet: capitalist collapse, climate disruption, Covid-19, racism, and an emergent neoliberal fascism – to enable doctors, health professionals an d citizens to see them asall of one piece? Medical educators must employ critical pedagogy to create legions of “constructive troublemakers” who challenge the social-structural ob...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - December 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
