Learning to Cure, but Learning to Care?

Autor/in	Michalec, Barret
Titel	Learning to Cure, but Learning to Care?
Quelle	In: Advances in Health Sciences Education, 16 (2011) 1, S.109-130 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1382-4996
DOI	10.1007/s10459-010-9249-0
Schlagwörter	Medical Education; Medical Students; Empathy; Case Studies; Medical Schools; Testing; College Curriculum; Social Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Medizinische Ausbildung; Empathie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Testdurchführung; Testen; Soziale Entwicklung
Abstract	Utilizing interviews with students and a key administrator, analyses of academic schedules, and observations of courses, labs, and small groups, this study examines if and how elements of the explicit preclinical curriculum may have deleterious effects on medical students' humanitarian attributes, namely empathy. Findings from this case-study of a medical school in the United States suggest that the lack of frequent formal testing in the psycho-social aspects of patient care during the preclinical years, as well as a general reduction in curriculum hours devoted to teaching the social aspects of medicine, may serve as mechanisms behind the diminution of medical students' levels of empathy and other positive attributes as found by previous research. Following the basic tenets of the Testing Effect and the assumption that assessment drives learning, it is argued that a feasible way to maintain and potentially cultivate these traits among medical students, without saturating an overwhelmed medical curriculum, would be to install periodic, formally graded exams into preclinical curriculums that evaluate empathy and the psycho-social aspects of care. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10