Using cancer patient stories to “power” communication modules.

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. TPS9147-TPS9147
Author(s):  
Forrest Lang ◽  
Joseph Sobol
Keyword(s):  
Family Medicine ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Medical Oncology ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Cancer Communication ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Patient Interviews ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Module Development

TPS9147 Background: Caring for patients with cancer poses great challenges to doctors’ communication skills. This project, funded by NIH-NCI, represents an innovative collaboration between ETSU faculty in medical oncology, family medicine, and storytelling. The team secures patients’ and caregivers’ cooperation in recording stories of their journeys with illness. These are the focus of a set of cancer communication modules, to be offered as educational experiences for medical students, residents, and oncology fellows. The modules in development address 1) breaking bad news, 2) living through treatment, 3) transitioning from curative to palliative care, 4) communicating with family, and 5) sensitivity to issues of religion and spirituality. Methods: A collaborative inter-professional team developed an interview protocol to facilitate sharing of cancer-themed narratives. Video records are transcribed and coded using N-Vivo 8. The rating team meets to identify video clips that speak powerfully to positive, negative, or ambivalent aspects of cancer communication. Selected patients are brought together into “story circles,” where additional narratives are gathered. The module development team uses these stories to create empathic involvement in viewers, and to sensitize them to effective and ineffective communication strategies and challenges surrounding critical moments in patients’ lived experience of cancer. Modules effectiveness is tested with 1) Family Medicine and Internal Medicine residents, 2) medical oncology fellows and 3) multi-professionals health students just completing a communication courses. Assessment includes a pre-test and post-test OSCE addressing a number of the challenging cancer communication moments. Eighty-four of a projected 100 patient interviews and twelve physician//faculty interviews have been recorded, and all have agreed to the use of their interview materials. Representative examples of recorded cancer stories will be presented to demonstrate their evocative and pedagogical value. Opportunities will be discussed for further uses of these and similar stories in collaborations between medicine and the arts and humanities.

Researching Religion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

Basic questions about religion in the modern world (such as whether it is becoming more or less popular and who believes what) can be answered only with the perspectives and methods of social science. While the arts and humanities can help us understand religious beliefs and behaviour, only social science can provide us with the evidence that will allow us to discern and explain the social patterns, causes, and consequences of religious belief. Only through the statistical examination of big data can we be confident of what any case study represents. In a text described by one reviewer as ‘brilliantly accessible’, an internationally renowned sociologist addresses the major problems of theory and methods in the study of religion. Important topics in religious studies such as conversion, the relative durability of different types of religion and spirituality, and the social circumstances that strengthen or undermine shared beliefs are used to demonstrate the importance of social science and to address methodological issues such as bias, partisanship, and research ethics. Bruce presents a robust defence of a conventionally scientific view of value-neutral social science against its partisan and postmodern critics.

Narrative medicine: Re-engaging and re-energizing ourselves through story

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 321-330
Author(s):  
Andre F Lijoi ◽  
Ana D Tovar
Keyword(s):  
Family Medicine ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Narrative Medicine ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Allied Health Professionals ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Original Motivation

Physicians and other allied health professionals have many distractions from their work and from original motivations to become health caring professionals. Activities that detract from making meaningful connection with patients result in high levels of work dissatisfaction and burnout even at early stages of career or training. Narrative Medicine provides an antidote to these influences. It is an experiential discipline that draws on the Arts and Humanities, connects health professionals to their original motivation to care, cultivates the ability to engage patients and stimulates professional growth. When practiced with interdisciplinary teams, commonalities and mutual purpose are highlighted, promoting group cohesion and appreciation. The practice of this discipline and development of narrative competence relates closely to the advancement along numerous milestones, particularly Patient Care, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, and Professionalism. This article describes an experiential and didactic workshop presented at the 2019 Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine which outlined a Narrative Medicine curriculum as taught at a community hospital Family Medicine residency. The curriculum is aimed at promoting residents’ professional development, personal wellbeing, and capacity to engage patients.

“Tradition,” Vernacularism, and Learning to Be a Folk Musician With Social Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 442-466
Author(s):  
Simon Keegan-Phipps ◽  
Lucy Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Shaping

This chapter considers the role of social media (broadly conceived) in the learning experiences of folk musicians in the Anglophone West. The chapter draws on the findings of the Digital Folk project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), and begins by summarizing and problematizing the nature of learning as a concept in the folk music context. It briefly explicates the instructive, appropriative, and locative impacts of digital media for folk music learning before exploring in detail two case studies of folk-oriented social media: (1) the phenomenon of abc notation as a transmissive media and (2) the Mudcat Café website as an example of the folk-oriented discussion forum. These case studies are shown to exemplify and illuminate the constructs of traditional transmission and vernacularism as significant influences on the social shaping and deployment of folk-related media technologies. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the need to understand the musical learning process as a culturally performative act and to recognize online learning mechanisms as sites for the (re)negotiation of musical, cultural, local, and personal identities.

scholarly journals Redefining peer learning: Role of student entrepreneurs in teaching entrepreneurship in the UK higher education context

2021 ◽  
pp. 095042222110126
Author(s):  
Stella Xu ◽  
Zimu Xu ◽  
Fujia Li ◽  
Arun Sukumar
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
School Students ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Student Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Entrepreneurship-related modules have become increasingly popular over the years, not only among business school students but also among those from other disciplines, including engineering and the arts and humanities. In some circumstances, they are offered as optional modules for students across different faculties and disciplines. While it is beneficial to mix students with different backgrounds, bringing in a wide range of perspectives, there are also challenges relating to course design and student engagement. With these challenges in mind, the authors trialled a new approach in the hope of motivating students from diverse academic and socio-cultural backgrounds to engage more fully in the classroom by utilising student entrepreneurs as guest speakers. The student-centric approach has proved effective in enhancing student engagement, as evidenced by both informal and formal feedback.

scholarly journals Geopoetics: Storytelling against mastery

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062098639
Author(s):  
Aya Nassar
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World

In this engagement with Eric Magrane’s article, ‘Climate Geopolitics (The Earth is a Composted Poem)’, I follow two provocations: first, geopoetics as travelling through disciplinary turfs, and second, geopoetics as storytelling. Coming from a disciplinary trajectory that spent a long stop at international relations (IR), these provocations attach me to geopoetics as practice and a growing field. My engagement here is oriented to geopoetics not only at the threshold of geography and the arts and humanities, but also the intersections of geography and politics. I primarily propose that viewing geopoetics as an open space for experimenting allows for disrupting masterful understandings of the academic self and counters a univocal, universal narrative of the world.

The Biblioteca Marucelliana and its database of prints and drawings: a work in progress

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Monica Maria Angeli ◽  
Rossella Todros
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts

The Biblioteca Marucelliana in Florence is a library specialising in the arts and humanities that has been open to the general public since the middle of the 18th century. Its founder, Francesco Marucelli, willed his large collection of books to the library. In 1783, the last member of the Marucelli family, Francesco di Roberto Marucelli, left the library around 2500 drawings and 30,000 engravings, and these are now being re-catalogued. The first volume of the engravings can already be consulted on a CD called PRISMA, and the records for the drawings, accompanied by digital images, will be put on a database which it is hoped will be available to scholars worldwide in 2010.

Research production in the arts and humanities

1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Hemlin ◽  
M. Gustafsson
Keyword(s):  
Research Production ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts
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