“Now I know how to not repeat history”: Teaching and Learning Through a Pandemic with the Medical Humanities
AbstractWe reflect on our experience co-teaching a medical humanities elective, “Pandemics and Plagues,” which was offered to undergraduates during the Spring 2021 semester, and discuss student reactions to studying epidemic disease from multidisciplinary medical humanities perspectives while living through the world Covid-19 pandemic. The course incorporated basic microbio logy and epidemiology into discussions of how epidemics from the Black Death to HIV/AIDS have been portrayed in history, literature, art, music, and journalism. Students self-assessed their learning gains and offered their insights using the SALG (S...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 9, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
A Value-Added Health Systems Science Intervention Based on My Life, My Story for Patients Living with HIV and Medical Students: Translating Narrative Medicine from Classroom to Clinic
AbstractIn 2018-2019, at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (KSOM), we developed and piloted a narrative-based health systems science intervention for patients living with HIV and medical students in which medical students co-wrote patients ’ life narratives for inclusion in the electronic health record. The pilot study aimed to assess the acceptability of the “life narrative protocol” (LNP) from multiple stakeholder positions and characterize participants’ experiences of the clinical and pedagogical implications of the LNP. St udents were recruited from KSOM. Patients and staff we...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - November 1, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
