| Literature DB >> 25804688 |
Abstract
There has been growing interest regarding the 'medical humanities' in most medical schools in Korea. Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field of humanities, social science, and the arts that aims to have a critical or supplementary role in medical education and practice. Thus, diverse educational methods should be applied to achieve the goals of medical humanities. The illness narrative is one of the most powerful tools in this context. An illness narrative is a patient's story about his illness, including the meaning of the illness in his life. The illness narrative is widely accepted as an effective educational tool in medical humanities. But, in Korea, there has been concern about the nature, theoretical background, and usefulness of the illness narrative. Medical students and doctors can obtain empathy and clinical wisdom through telling, hearing, reading, and writing illness narratives. In this article, I will examine the nature and meaning of illness narratives in teaching medical humanities and discuss several examples of narrative training programs.Entities:
Keywords: Illness narrative; Medical education; Medical humanities; Narrative medicine
Year: 2013 PMID: 25804688 PMCID: PMC8813504 DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2013.25.2.81
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Korean J Med Educ ISSN: 2005-727X
Aims and Strategies of Medical Humanities
| Aims | Strategies |
|---|---|
| Group A: Transferable skills | To develop the ability to write clear English |
| To develop sensitivity to nuances, ambiguities, and hidden meaning in ordinary conversation | |
| To develop the ability to analyze arguments, justify clinical decisions, and present cases to a lay public | |
| To develop the ability to assess different sorts of evidence | |
| To develop the ability to see connections between apparently disparate situations | |
| Group B: Humanistic perspective | To enable students to develop a broad perspective on human beings and society, which places medical practice into a wider context or puts it into a social framework |
| To develop moral sensitivity | |
| Group C: Coping with the particular situation | To develop the ability to understand and to cope with particular situations where rules and guidelines do not exactly apply |
| Group D: Self-awareness | To develop self-awareness, including awareness of one’s own emotions |
| Group E: Joint investigation | To experience the process of joint investigation |
This table was made based on the content of Downie’s paper [5].