Three Things to Do With Stories: Using Literature in Medical, Health Professions, and Interprofessional Education.
*Curriculum; *Interprofessional Relations; *Medicine in Literature; Comprehension; Education; Health Occupations/*education; Humans; Literature; Medical; Morals; Professional/methods; Undergraduate/*methods
It would be unusual to find a current medical school administrator or faculty member who has not heard the phrase "literature and medicine" or who does not know that literature is taught in various forms-short stories, novels, poems, essays-at many points in the curriculum at U.S. medical schools. Yet the phrase is used in slippery if not elusive ways, with no clear referent common to all who use it. This article focuses on three theoretical and pedagogical uses for literature in medical, health professions, and interprofessional education: close reading, ethical or moral inquiry, and drawing illustrations. Summaries of these approaches are provided, followed by demonstrations of how they might work in the classroom by using the story "Blankets," by Native American writer Sherman Alexie.Close reading requires reading slowly and carefully to enrich an initial encounter with a text. Ethical or moral inquiry turns to literary representations to challenge readers' assumptions and prejudices. Literature offers rich, provoking, and unusual depictions of common phenomena, so it can be used to draw illustrations. Although each approach can be used on its own, the authors argue that reading closely makes the other two approaches possible and meaningful because it shares with the diagnostic process many practices critical to skilled interprofessional caregiving: paying attention to details, gathering and reevaluating evidence, weighing competing interpretations. By modeling a close reading of a text, faculty can demonstrate how this skill, which courts rather than resists ambiguity, can assist students in making ethical and compassionate judgments.
Blackie Michael; Wear Delese
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
2015
2015-10
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000000761" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/ACM.0000000000000761</a>
Border crossings in medical education.
Physician-Patient Relations; Curriculum; Literature; *Humanities; Health Knowledge; Practice; Undergraduate; Medical; Attitudes; *Education
Wear D
The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha
1997
1905-06
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The not-so-good old days.
United States; Literature; Education; Internship and Residency; Quality Improvement; Workload; Medical; Wit and Humor; Physicians – Psychosocial Factors; Internship and Residency – Standards; Physicians – Standards
Susman J
Journal of Family Practice
2012
2012-06
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On small, good things in medicine.
Grief; Literature; Attitude to Death; Psychosocial; Support; Parents – Psychosocial Factors
Wear D; Zarconi J
American Journal of Medicine
2012
2012-03
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.10.011" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.10.011</a>
Retheorizing sexual harassment in medical education: women students' perceptions at five u.s. Medical schools.
Female; United States; Literature; Students; Education; Schools; Culture; Perception; Human; Medical; Sexual Harassment – Psychosocial Factors
Background: The literature consistently reports that sexual harassment occurs with regularity in medical education, mostly in clinical settings, and most of it goes unreported. Reasons for nonreporting include the fear of retaliation, a reluctance to be viewed as a victim, a fear that one is being 'too sensitive,' and the belief that nothing will be done. Purpose: We wanted to examine with greater concentration the stories women students tell about sexual harassment, including what they count as sexual harassment, for more or different clues to their persistent nonreporting. Methods: We used focus groups to interview 30 women students at 5 U.S. medical schools. We used systematic inductive guidelines to analyze the transcribed data, linking to and building new theoretical frameworks to provide an interpretive understanding of the lived experiences of the women in our study. Results: Consistent with previous literature, most of the students interviewed had either witnessed or observed sexual harassment. We selected 2 theoretical lenses heretofore not used to explain responses to sexual harassment: 3rd-wave feminist theory to think about how current women students conceive sexual harassment and personality theory to explain beliefs about nonreporting. Conclusions: Medical educators need new ways to understand how contemporary women students define and respond to sexual harassment.
Wear D; Aultman JM; Borges N J
Teaching & Learning in Medicine
2007
2007
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1080/10401330709336619" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1080/10401330709336619</a>
The summer of her baldness: A cancer improvisation
Literature
Wear D
Literature and Medicine
2004
2004
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2005.0017" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1353/lm.2005.0017</a>
Borderland Biopolitics Public Health and Border Enforcement in Early Twentieth-Century Latinx Fiction
Literature; public-health; biopolitics; border; citizenship; control; medicalized nativism
This article situates early twentieth-century Latinx fiction within the intertwined histories of public health and border surveillance along the Rio Grande to reveal a "borderland biopolitics" unique to the US-Mexico border region. Drawing on three early twentieth-century novels-Daniel Venegas's Adventures of Don Chipote, Americo Paredes's George Washington Gomez, and Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero- it adds another layer of historical nuance to studies of Latinx literature by demonstrating the profound, pervasive influence that epidemiological science and public health policy have had in shaping national identity politics in the borderlands. Because militarized border control evolves from public health efforts, reframing analyses of Latinx fiction to read for public health provides fresh insight into institutionalized forms of discrimination and social injustice that continue to condition Latinx lives in the US-Mexico borderlands.
Bracken R C
English Language Notes
2018
2018-10
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-6960702" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1215/00138282-6960702</a>
THE DOCTOR AS PATIENT, BIOETHICAL DILEMMAS REFLECTED IN LITERARY NARRATIVES
Literature
Budge A; Dickstein E
Literature and Medicine
1988
1988
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
n/a
Physicians and duty during pandemics.
Literature; Duty; Pandemic
Barreiro TJ; Gemmel D
The American Journal of Medicine
2020
2020-08-14
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.07.011" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.07.011</a>