Medical Education

Communication Skills Modules

A site about communicating with and diagnosing patients with headaches.

looks like a good book, but expensive!

Caragh Brosnan, Keele

Abstract: Drawing from a dialogue between Transformative Learning and NarrativeMedicine, Transformative Medicine seeks to expose detrimental power systems and unchallenged assumptions between physician and patient, indoctrinated through medicaleducation, and advocate dialogue and critical reflection around a patient's storied experience to improve the quality of medical interpretations and intervention.

How could this impact medical education?

Whereas present theories of transformative learning tend to focus on the rational and reflective actor, in this article it is suggested that spontaneous action may play a decisive role in transformative learning too. In the spontaneity of action, novelty finds its way into life, gains momentum, is respected by others and reflected by the actor. Such transformation processes are investigated both with the means of theoretical reflection and of empirical inquiry. Based on nine narrative interviews typical phases of transformative learning processes are identified. Owing to the comparative nature of the study, it was also possible to develop an age-related typology that overlaps certain phases of the transformation process. These empirical findings constitute the background against which the nexus of spontaneous action and transformative learning is reflected theoretically. Theories drawn upon include John Dewey's Pragmatism and George Herbert Mead's Social Pragmatism. Both scholars provide rich theoretical concepts for reflecting on the nature of that what so often eludes from the control of both educators and learners: the spontaneity of the beginning.

another interesting wiki example

Dean Guistini

Future possibilities for electronic health records in the UK. What are the plans where you live?

BMJ editorial on future NHS ehr

Arno Kumagai,

I think this is a really interesting paper about how patient narratives can be central to medical education.

Great example from Deidre

portal to allow patients to share stories and experiences and get support

started with mainly neurological conditions but allows patients to share experiences of illness and treatments

Romanian researchers experience

A blog post on the use of Twitter in Higher Education

blog post by Alexis (Lex) Rigby, librarian in Sheffield

Romanian case study

Aim Because it deals with qualitative information, portfolio assessment inevitably involves some degree of subjectivity. The use of stricter assessment criteria or more structured and prescribed content would improve interrater reliability, but would obliterate the essence of portfolio assessment in terms of flexibility, personal orientation and authenticity. We resolved this dilemma by using qualitative research criteria as opposed to reliability in the evaluation of portfolio assessment

Hello Zakkal I thought you might find this interesting:) Students sharing.

Issue of Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice which explores limits of medical knowlege... EBM vs personalised care