José Gregorio Hernández: At the crossroads of medicine and religion in Venezuela

2020 ◽  
pp. 096777202097427
Author(s):  
Gabriel E Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Catholic Faith

After being ravished by a bloody civil war in the 1860 s, Venezuela’s healthcare system was very precarious. In this context, one particularly bright medical student stood out, José Gregorio Hernández. As part of a program to modernize medicine in Venezuela, José Gregorio was sent on a scholarship to pursue medical studies in Europe. He brought back to Venezuela equipment and medical knowledge in bacteriology and pathophysiology. This was instrumental in laying the foundations for major healthcare modernization in Venezuela. Throughout his life, José Gregorio negotiated his intense Catholic faith, with his scientific leanings as a physician. His untimely tragic death in 1919 elevated him to a saintly status amongst Venezuelans. Consequently, his image became a powerful symbol for practitioners of prescientific medicine.

John Keats and Indian Medicine

Romanticism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-166
Author(s):  
Nikki Hessell
Keyword(s):  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Medical Imagery ◽  
Indian Medicine ◽  
The Impact

John Keats's medical studies at Guy's Hospital coincided with a boom in interest in both the traditional medicines of the sub-continent and the experiences of British doctors and patients in India. Despite extensive scholarship on the impact of Keats's medical knowledge on his poetry, little consideration has been given to Keats's exposure to Indian medicine. The poetry that followed his time at Guy's contains numerous references to the contemporary state of knowledge about India and its medical practices, both past and present. This essay focuses on Isabella and considers the major sources of information about Indian medicine in the Regency. It proposes that some of Keats's medical imagery might be read as a specific response to the debates about medicine in the sub-continent.

Flipping the Medical School Classroom

2018 ◽  
pp. 5800-5809
Author(s):  
Kristina Kaljo ◽  
Laura Jacques
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Hybrid Learning ◽  
Teaching Methodologies ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Content Acquisition ◽  
Hybrid Learning Environment

The preparation of today's physicians is a tremendous responsibility. For medical students to be successful, they must experience a multitude of opportunities to develop appropriate clinical skills, problem solving acumen, and medical knowledge. Due to various barriers, medical students may develop gaps in critical and foundational knowledge. The use of flipped lectures has the capacity to “mobilize” education and ensure for versatility and improved content acquisition through the implementation of both online and face-to-face teaching methodologies. This hybrid learning environment has the capacity to also address the increasingly diverse needs of today's matriculating medical student. This article identifies tools and strategies of how to incorporate flipped lectures into medical education.

A Healing Journey with a Thousand Echoes

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan W. Young
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Health It ◽  
Medical Evidence ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Alternative Treatments ◽  
Healing Journey ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Treatments ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

In this personal account, the author describes her engagement with the healthcare system and the insights she gained during her struggle to restore her health. It also chronicles how this life-changing event prompted her to help educate others diagnosed with similar diseases and to form an active community for sharing and expanding medical knowledge. After a synopsis of the author’s medical journey in the Introduction, these topics are woven into three main sections: Medical Evidence, Complementary and Alternative Treatments, and the Influence of Technology.

Anosmia

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-60
Author(s):  
Evan A. Kutzler
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The Public

This chapter introduces the nose and the eyes as essential to the perception of healthy and unhealthy air, water, and whole landscapes. While sickness is a well-known theme of Civil War prisons, scholarly discussions of disease, hospitals, and medicine are often disembodied from individual lived-experience. This chapter therefore historicizes the public health of Civil War prisons by unpacking what terms like miasma and sanitation meant to prisoners and how antebellum medical knowledge about noses, eyes, and sickness shaped the experience and management of Civil War prisons.

scholarly journals P167: The spot the diagnosis! series: using fine art to teach observation skills and medical concepts on a medical education website

CJEM ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (S1) ◽  
pp. S116-S117
Author(s):  
L. Zhao ◽  
T. Maniuk ◽  
T. M. Chan ◽  
B. Thoma
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Question And Answer ◽  
Observational Skills ◽  
Medical Concepts

Introduction: Fine art education increases the quality and quantity of observations that medical students make in both art and clinical reports. However, there are few free and accessible resources that teach art and observational skills to healthcare learners and providers. CanadiEM.org, a medical education blog, developed a new series called Spot the Diagnosis! to address this gap. The goals of the Spot the Diagnosis! series are to: 1) use art to explain medical concepts, 2) tie medical concepts to visual art, 3) hone observational skills, and 4) expose healthcare providers to art. Methods: Each piece of art for the Spot the Diagnosis! Series is selected based upon the author’s art history knowledge, resources found using an online search, and/or suggestions made by other healthcare professionals. The accompanying blog post is researched and written by a medical student in a question-and-answer style and peer-reviewed by another medical student and physician. Posts are uploaded monthly to CanadiEM.org and accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Promotion occurs on site, via email, word-of-mouth, and social media. Viewership is tracked using Google Analytics (GA). A survey for readers is planned to assess who, how, and why readers use the series, but results were not available prior to abstract submission. Results: Six Spot the Diagnosis! posts have been published, each of which begins with the selection of a piece of fine arts that showcases a potential medical diagnosis and a blog post outlining an interpretation of the work informed by observations, historical reports, and medical evidence. Each was published as a blog post on a Saturday and added to a page containing a list of all posts in the broader Arts PRN section on CanadiEM. All contained a single piece of art as the focus, 6 ± 2 (median ± IQR) questions, 638 ± 250 words, and 6 ± 3 references. The answers to questions are hidden under drop-down formatting to allow viewers to arrive at their own answers first. In the first 30 days of publication, each post in the series was viewed 1582 ± 401 times. Conclusion: The Spot the Diagnosis! series is an online educational resource published on CanadiEM.org that aims to improve learners medical knowledge and observational skills by featuring fine arts pieces with relevant question-and-answer style posts. This series fills the gap between art and medicine and has been well received by CanadiEM viewers. We look forward to analyzing responses in our survey to further understand how, why, and who uses this new and innovative resource.

Great Doctors and Medical Worthies

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-284
Author(s):  
D. Emslie-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Century Health

After Harvey's visits to Scotland with Charles I the formation of a united Caroline University in Aberdeen was thwarted by the Civil War. In Oxford Harvey instituted a group of medical scientists, forerunners of the Royal Society, who almost explained the physiology of respiration. Harvey had several things in common with Dr Samuel Johnson. Johnson's medical knowledge and contacts are emphasised, examples of 17th and 18th century health regimens are given and Johnson's friendship with Scottish medical men and some others connected with the Royal College of Physicians and the Harveian Society of Edinburgh are described.

scholarly journals An Internet-Based Radiology Course in Medical School: Comparison of Academic Performance of Students on Campus Versus Those With Absenteeism Due to Residency Interviews (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew George Alexander ◽  
Deborah Deas ◽  
Paul Eric Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Final Exam ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Online Lectures ◽  
National Cohort ◽  
Based Instruction

BACKGROUND Imaging and its optimal use are imperative to the practice of medicine, yet many students don’t receive a formal education in radiology. Concurrently, students look for ways to take time away from medical school for residency interviewing. Web-based instruction provides an opportunity to combine these imperatives using online modalities. OBJECTIVE A largely Web-based course in radiology during the 4th year of medical school was evaluated both for its acceptance to students who needed to be away from campus for interviews, and its effectiveness on a nationally administered standardized test. METHODS All students were placed into a structured program utilizing online videos, online modules, online textbook assignments, and live interactive online lectures. Over half of the course could be completed away from campus. The Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology test exam bank was used as a final exam to evaluate medical knowledge. RESULTS Positive student feedback included the freedom to travel for interviews, hands-on ultrasound training, interactive teaching sessions, and quality Web-based learning modules. Negative feedback included taking quizzes in-person, a perceived outdated online textbook, and physically shadowing hospital technicians. Most students elected to take the course during the interview months of October through January. The Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology final exam results (70.5%) were not significantly different than the national cohort (70%) who took the course in-person. Test scores from students taking the course during interview travel months were not significantly different from students who took the course before (P=.30) or after (P=.34) the interview season. CONCLUSIONS Students desire to learn radiology and often choose to do so when they need to be away from campus during the fall of their 4th year of study to accomplish their residency interviews. Web-based education in radiology allows students’ interview traveling and radiology course objectives to be successfully met without adversely affecting the outcomes on a nationally normed examination in radiology. A curriculum that includes online content and live Web-based teleconference access to faculty can accomplish both imperatives.

scholarly journals Re-Engineering Healthcare

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (11) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Noor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Pervasive Access ◽  
Delivery Of Health Services

This article reviews a system that is in need of repair in the United States, and engineers are uniquely equipped to help fix it. Although the expenditure per capita on healthcare in the United States is higher than in any other country, the current US healthcare system cannot be sustained, and major improvements are needed. Lives unnecessarily lost each year in the United States due to medical errors are estimated to be as high as 98,000 and injuries over a million. The healthcare system is currently facing many problems and challenges, including rapid changes in medical technology and practice, severe shortages in skilled healthcare workers, and an aging population with increased incidence of disease and disability. The cyber infrastructure will facilitate technology-based, distributed delivery of health services, as well as training and lifelong learning for healthcare workers. It can evolve into an electronic care continuum with pervasive access to global, accurate, and timely medical knowledge for individuals about their health needs in an era of rapid change and expanding knowledge.

scholarly journals Objective Structured Clinical Examination’s adaptation for final evaluation of the curricular component “Semiological Bases”

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Fernando Muti Carvalho ◽  
Marta Silva Menezes ◽  
Iêda Maria Barbosa Aleluia ◽  
Humberto Castro Lima Filho ◽  
Ana Veronica Mascarenhas Batista ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Physical Examination ◽  
Clinical Case ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Medical Student Learning ◽  
Practical Exam ◽  
De Medicina

BACKGROUND: The combination of both physiological knowledge of a variety of sistems and the clinical findings it is of extreme relevance to the medical student learning process. The proposal of a simulated enviroment, with clinical data collection and regular physical examination, is crucial to this process. The Semiological bases of Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública module, used by the OSCE’s 4th semester medical students, capacitate them for such means. SUMMARY OF WORK: The evaluation logistic was divided into two segments: the first one was made through a theorical exam with close questioning, exhibiting images and videos, but also containing an open-ended question requesting a construction of a fictional clinical case; in the second one it was applied a practical exam segmented by different fields of medical knowledge (neurological, cardiovascular and respiratory/abdomen), with the evaluation of 120 students and followed by the teacher’s feedbacks at the conclusion of each field exam. SUMMARY OF RESULTS: The experience was important, however, it is notable the need for a complex management and understanding of the evaluational process. Discussion between students and teachers happened in behalf of the development of such proposal. CONCLUSIONS: The application of theorical exams throughout the semester combined with a practical exam (the OSCE) at the conclusion of the curricular component Bases Semiológicas had significant weight to the whole process.

scholarly journals Chka! A Portrait of Armenian Healthcare

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Author(s):  
Andrea Zumrova
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Compte Rendu ◽  
Système De Santé ◽  
Pratiques Médicales

ABSTRACTArmenia is an often overlooked country with a colourful history and an unusual healthcare system from the perspective of a Canadian medical student. This report gives a portait of Armenian healthcare practices and some cultural context in which to understand these practices. The information was obtained on my month long elective in Yerevan, Armenia. RÉSUMÉL’Arménie est parfois perçue comme un pays avec une histoire haute en couleur et avec un système de santé hors de l’ordinaire lorsqu’on adopte la perspective des étudiants en médecine au Canada. Ce compte rendu donne un aperçu du système de santé ar­ménien en ce qui concerne ses différentes pratiques médicales et va aussi fournir un contexte culturel pour d’avantage approfondir la compréhension de leurs approches médicales. L’information est fondée et inspirée par mon stage d’observation clinique d’un mois au Yerevan en Arménie.

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