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Thursday Review: “Beyond ‘Dr. Feel-Good’: A Role for the Humanities in Medical Education”

As Dr. Arno K. Kumagai confirms in Academic Medicine, there’s a growing interest in the arts and humanities as a part of medical education. This curriculum, though, is still in its infancy. We know this because faculty and students alike don’t quite know what to do with the humanities.

February 25, 2021By meaningwell Thursday Review disruption, medical education, medical humanities, narrative complexity, T. S. Eliot

Thursday Review: “Restoring the Patient’s Voice: The Therapeutics of Illness Narratives”

The bulk of my work is wrapped up in teaching how stories can be useful in clinical situations. I believe that stories and storytelling make life better and more meaningful. I tend, though, to downplay narrative work that can’t explicitly help doctors, nurses, and administrators serve patients more effectively. I suppose that comes from a […]

May 31, 2018By meaningwell Nursing, Personal, Thursday Review analytic mode, autobiography, depersonalization, disease vs. illness, disruption, evidence-based medicine, experience, expertise, identity, illness talk, listening, medical humanities, medical metanarrative, narrative mode, nursing, self-expression