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Evaluating a poetry workshop in medical education
1Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, UK.
Medical Humanities
|May 16, 2013
Summary
Engaging in poetry workshops can enhance medical students' empathy and communication skills. This creative outlet improves observation and language awareness, benefiting both doctors and patients.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Arts and Humanities in Medicine
Background:
- Medical education increasingly integrates humanities to foster holistic physician development.
- The role of creative arts, specifically poetry, in medical training remains an area for exploration.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the impact of poetry workshops on medical students' understanding of medical practice.
- To assess the effectiveness of qualitative and quantitative methods in evaluating such a program.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative research involving a poetry workshop with medical students, a poet, and a pathologist.
- Data collection through interviews, observation, and web analytics.
- Followed by quantitative analysis of website engagement.
Main Results:
- Poetry enhances doctor-patient communication by improving observation skills and language awareness.
- Poetry provides an emotional outlet for medical professionals and patients.
- A poetry website received significant traffic (493 hits), indicating broader interest.
- Qualitative evaluation methods proved effective.
Conclusions:
- "Doing poetry for poetry's sake" cultivates empathy in medical students.
- Poetry workshops should be incorporated into medical arts and humanities curricula.
- Creative writing programs can positively influence medical practice understanding and skills.
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