Creative pedagogies for infusing self-awareness of physician vulnerability into formal curricula: A cross-continental dialogue

Topic

In this webinar, our panel of Hong Kong and Australia-based frontline medical educators will explore the use of diverse modalities (from reflective journaling, videogaming, to improvisation and verbatim theatre) for promoting medical students’ awareness and resilience in relation to their own vulnerability as a helping professional.

Description

There are inevitably times when medical students would come into direct contact with emotionally wrenching events in patient care or high-tension encounters in clinical settings.

In 2021, a U.S. medical student published in Academic Medicine calling for medical schools’ efforts to re-define professionalism education in the formal curricula by adding teachings on healthcare practitioner’s own vulnerability. (Veal, 2021)

This webinar features a cross-continental panel of medical educators who echo Veal (2021)’s vision, on how they have infused topics around physician vulnerability (e.g. professional grief, moral distress/moral injury, and difficult emotions) into their respective medical humanities/medical ethics/communication classes.