Teaching Anthropology In the Medical Curriculum

As medical school curricula incorporate more cultural diversity training, a patient-based learning approach with selected 'hands-on' experiences will create opportunities for students to increase their cultural sensitivity and competency. This program's experiential model indicates that after refugee medical encounters, these beginning medical students reported greater awareness of communication issues, and sensitivity toward religious values, family patterns, gender roles and ethnomedical treatments. It will be important to test these kinds of preceptor/apprenticeship models of cultural sensitivity training at later stages of medical training; in order to assess long-term effects.

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Cultural Awareness through Medical Student and Refugee Patient Encounters

Griswold

Zayas

Kernan

et al. 2006

J Immigrant Health

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‘Anti-Vaxxers’ and Vaccine Citizenship: Insights for Medical Education

Fisayo

2021

Med.Sci.Educ.

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Teaching physiotherapy students to “be content with a body that refuses to hold still”

Macdonald

Nicholls

2017

Physiotherapy Theory and Practice

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In recent decades, physiotherapists have become concerned with cultural, economic, philosophical, political, and social questions and have been exploring more flexible ways of speaking about and practicing physiotherapy. While recognizing the need to embrace a broader range of perspectives, physiotherapy educators and other medical educators have been at a loss as to how to best achieve this. Drawing on two examples from South Africa and New Zealand, we seek to illustrate possibilities and barriers to teaching social sciences to physiotherapy students, specifically theories of embodiment as an alternative to the biopsychosocial model. We review each educator's choice of embodiment theory in curriculum design and the role of the educator's disciplinary background on teaching, learning, and assessing that learning. Against this background, we explore physiotherapy students' experiences with theories of embodiment and possible transformative implications for their self-worth and/or professional practices. We suggest that students were able to explore physiotherapy's relation to the body and the profession's historical inattention toward the body as a philosophical/theoretical construct. From the lessons learned, some can perhaps be usefully passed onto others thinking of introducing a more diverse and inclusive approach of the body; one that we argue will be needed in the future.

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Teaching Anthropology In the Medical Curriculum

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Cultural Awareness through Medical Student and Refugee Patient Encounters

Cultural Awareness through Medical Student and Refugee Patient Encounters

‘Anti-Vaxxers’ and Vaccine Citizenship: Insights for Medical Education

Teaching physiotherapy students to “be content with a body that refuses to hold still”

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