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Medical Humanities and Medical Education
How the medical humanities can shape better doctors
Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities Series
Author: Bleakley Alan
Language: EnglishSubjects for Medical Humanities and Medical Education:
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Lyricism; Medical aesthetics; arts therapy; critical medical humanities; curriculum design; drama; ethical practice; humane practice; literature; medical education; medical error; medical humanities; medical humanities impact; music; narrative; UK Royal; visual arts; UK Royal Society; Common Mental Health Symptoms; UK Royal College; UK Medical School; Basic Science Teachers; Family Medicine Residency Training Programme; Public Engagement; Specialty Interest; North American Medical School; ADHD; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Medical Humanities Provision; Peninsula Medical School; Medical Humanities Interventions; Arts Therapies; Undergraduate Medical Education; University Humanities Departments; Close Noticing; Women’s Health Book Collective; Windsor Conference; Boston Women’s Health Book
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The field of the medical humanities is developing rapidly, however, there has also been parallel concern from sceptics that the value of medical humanities educational interventions should be open to scrutiny and evidence. Just what is the impact of medical humanities provision upon the education of medical students? In an era of limited resources, is such provision worth the investment? This innovative text addresses these pressing questions, describes the contemporary territory comprising the medical humanities in medical education, and explains how this field may be developed as a key medical education component for the future.
Bleakley, a driving force of the international movement to establish the medical humanities as a core and integrated provision in the medical curriculum, proposes a model that requires collaboration between patients, artists, humanities scholars, doctors and other health professionals, in developing medical students? sensibility (clinical acumen based on close noticing) and sensitivity (ethical, professional and humane practice). In particular, this text focuses upon how medical humanities input into the curriculum can help to shape the identities of medical students as future doctors who are humane, caring, expressive and creative ? whose work will be technically sound but considerably enhanced by their abilities to communicate well with patients and colleagues, to empathise, to be adaptive and innovative, and to act as ?medical citizens? in shaping a future medical culture as a model democracy where social justice is a key aspect of medicine.
Making sense of the new wave of medical humanities in medical education scholarship that calls for a ?critical medical humanities?, Medical Humanities and Medical Education incorporates a range of case studies and illustrative and practical examples to aid integrating medical humanities into the medical curriculum. It will be important reading for medical educators and others working with the medical education community, and all those interested in the medical humanities.
Foreword Arno K. Kumagai Introduction 1. Where do the Medical Humanities Come From and Where are They Going? 2. What are the 'Medical Humanities'? Definitions and Controversies 3. The Distribution of the Sensible 4. Empathy and its Discontents 5. Towards a Medical Aesthetics: Creativity and Imagination in Medical Education 6. Close Noticing 7. Can Narrative Medicine take the Strain? 8. Hyper-Realism and the Chemical Regulation of Mood 9. Evaluating the Impact of Medical Humanities Provision
Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University Peninsula Medical School, UK. He is past President of the Association of Medical Humanities.