The interpretive project: a creative educational approach to fostering medical students’ reflections and advancing humanistic medicine

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There are emerging links between reflection and humanistic, patient‐centered practice. We created the Family Centered Experience (FCE) to help students understand the experience of illness from the patient’s perspective. The FCE centers on students’ reflections of their conversations with their volunteer patients and families - these conversations and reflections are at the core of small group activities. The FCE Interpretive Project provides students with a chance to reflect on their volunteer’s illness experience. Students reflect on how the volunteer’s experience has influenced the way they understand the unique experience of illness and its impact on individuals, families and friends. Projects have included poems, songs, collages, paintings, quilts, sculptures, books, slide presentations, and games. By carrying forward into clerkships what they have learned from their patients and in their discussions, students are better equipped to handle the challenges of the hidden curriculum and to preserve the values of humanistic medicine espoused in the FCE.View full textDownload full textKeywordsreflection, reflective practice, humanistic medicine, patient‐centred health care, illness narratives, medical educationRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2010.505718