Cultural Appropriation for Improved Knowledge Acquisition in Medical Education

IF 1.8 Q2 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

Advances in Medical Education and Practice Pub Date : 2024-04-11 DOI:10.2147/amep.s450484

Samar Abdelazim Ahmed, Nagwa N Hegazy, Hebat Allah Ahmed Amin, Mariam IM Ismail, Yasser Fouad Alakid, Archana Prabu Kumar

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Abstract

Background: Culture is an essential component that governs all aspects of human behavior. Superstition is an irrational belief observed in almost all cultures. It is linked to one or more factors like supernatural powers, good luck, bad omen, fiction, illegitimate activity, absurd narration, folk tales, or practice without any rational basis.
Methods: A cross-sectional social experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of cultural appropriation as a tool to enhance medical knowledge acquisition and attitudinal development in medical education. The experiment was designed to target a non-medical population. Four superstition-oriented videos were developed with 20 scientific pieces of information related to forensic medicine. A data collection sheet was developed on Microsoft form with 16 questions was distributed on the participants.
Results: Out of the 986 participants, 763 (77.5%) watched the whole set of videos. About 55– 95% of responders demonstrated knowledge acquisition of all the questions. There was a statistically significant difference between those who watched the videos and those who did not. When participants were asked about the most important information they remember from the videos, their answers fell into two main categories; information related to core scientific knowledge (80% of participants) and information not related to the core knowledge (16% of respondents). The top three areas for the reasons why people wanted to watch the videos were curiosity, knowledge, and career. A change in attitudes was reported among the participants where 80% of responders demonstrated curiosity to know more about this world, 46% responders reported developing more respect for the forensic physician and 43% revealed their ignorance about this great hidden world.
Conclusion: Cultural appropriation could be a needed strategy to accommodate for upscale in education. Learners might validate that learning happens through a door that adopts not only honours their culture and adapts to it.

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在医学教育中通过文化挪用改进知识获取

背景：文化是支配人类行为各个方面的重要组成部分。迷信是几乎所有文化中都存在的一种非理性信仰。它与一种或多种因素有关，如超自然力量、好运、凶兆、虚构、非法活动、荒谬的叙述、民间故事或没有任何合理依据的做法：方法：我们进行了一项横向社会实验，以评估文化挪用作为一种工具在医学教育中促进医学知识学习和态度培养的效果。该实验的目标人群为非医务人员。我们制作了四段以迷信为导向的视频，其中包含 20 条与法医学相关的科学信息。实验结果显示，在 986 名参与者中，有 7 人对法医学有兴趣，有 3 人对法医学不感兴趣：在 986 名参与者中，有 763 人（77.5%）观看了整套视频。约 55-95% 的答卷者对所有问题都有所了解。观看视频和未观看视频者之间的差异在统计学上有显著性。当被问及他们从视频中记住的最重要的信息时，他们的答案主要分为两类：与核心科学知识相关的信息（80% 的参与者）和与核心知识无关的信息（16% 的受访者）。人们想观看视频的前三个原因是好奇心、知识和职业。参与者的态度发生了变化，80%的受访者表示对了解这个世界充满好奇，46%的受访者表示更加尊重法医，43%的受访者表示对这个伟大的隐秘世界一无所知：结论：文化挪用可能是适应教育升级所需的一种策略。学习者可能会确认，学习是通过一扇门进行的，这扇门不仅尊重他们的文化，而且适应他们的文化。

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