Theatre
An innovative teaching tool integrated into core undergraduate medical curriculum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Robert D’alessandro (0000-0002-4118-2256, Dalhousie University, corresponding author), Gerri Frager (Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 191-204 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arts & Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-3015 • E-ISSN: 1753-3023 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17533015.2013.822398 |
| OpenAlex | W1988432984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 9 |
Background: Ed's Story: The Dragon Chronicles is a verbatim play based on the journal of a 16-year-old with advanced cancer and transcripts from 25 interviews conducted after his death with his family, friends and health care team. After cross-country performances directed at health professionals and the general public, a viewing was incorporated into core undergraduate medical curriculum at our institution. We collected and compared responses of trainees who viewed the play voluntarily in extra-curricular settings and those who viewed a mandatory curriculum performance. Methods: Trainees completed confidential, online surveys within one year of viewing. A total of 46 trainees from five Canadian medical schools completed surveys after voluntary extra-curricular viewings (60.9% female, 39.1% male, mean age 26.2 ± 3.2 years). Of 84 eligible second-year medical students, 60 students completed surveys after mandatory curricular viewing (68.3% female, 31.7% male, mean age 26.0 ± 2.9 years, response rate 71.4%). Results: In both cohorts, a majority of trainees agreed that the play was a good learning experience (84.8%, 93.3%), should be experienced by all medical students (75.5%, 84.5%) and taught lessons they will use in their careers (71.1%, 84.7%). Trainees highlighted the play's realism, the insight gained into patient experiences and that they preferred the play to other teaching modalities. A greater percentage of trainees in the mandatory curriculum cohort agreed that a viewing should be incorporated into medical curriculum (86.7% vs. 45.3%, χ2 = 20.3, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Medical trainees responded positively to this verbatim play in both extra-curricular and curricular settings
Cohort · Computer-assisted web interviewing · Confidentiality · Core curriculum · Curriculum · Family medicine · Health care · Medical education · Modalities · Pedagogy · Sociology · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills · Empathy and Medical Education · Innovations in Medical Education · Medicine · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |