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  • Medical Education
  • Health Humanities
  • Social Determinants of Health

Background:

  • Health professions education requires innovative methods to address complex social issues.
  • Learners need enhanced analytical skills to understand patient experiences holistically.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce the Health Humanities Portrait Approach and Health Humanities Portrait tool.
  • Enable health professions learners to critically examine social issues influencing health and illness.
  • Foster learners' proficiency in analyzing the human and social dimensions of patient lives.

Main Methods:

  • The Health Humanities Portrait Approach is grounded in critical portraiture principles.
  • The Health Humanities Portrait utilizes a first-person narrative and scholarship.
  • Focuses on a pressing social theme to explore personal and structural dimensions.

Main Results:

  • The approach fosters humanities-driven analytical skills in learners.
  • Learners can synthesize and analyze the human and social dimensions of patients' lives with depth and breadth.
  • The pedagogical tool facilitates a deeper understanding of health, illness, and healthcare.

Conclusions:

  • The Health Humanities Portrait Approach is an innovative curricular intervention.
  • This approach contributes to health professions education by integrating health humanities methodologies.
  • It enhances the understanding of multifaceted aspects of health and illness experiences.