{"title":"Online Faculty Development: Experiences of a Journal Club Discussion","authors":"Chnimay Shah, R. Vyas","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132349998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical Student Introduction to ‘Patient Centred Healthcare' Through a ‘Constructivist' Learning Session in Cardiology: A Cross Sectional Evaluation","authors":"Monika Pathania, A. Chaturvedi, R. Biswas","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100106","url":null,"abstract":"To compare constructivist and traditional power point teaching modalities in a cardiology workshop for medical undergraduates. The purpose of introducing the constructivist method was to activate the cognitive domain of the students and promote self learning. A cross sectional qualitative and quantitative study was planned on hundred, second and third professional medical students (III to IX semester) who were screened to participate. Topics discussed with the constructivist method were clinical case discussion, basic and advanced cardiac life support, electrocardiography, and community cardiology. The traditional power point method topics discussed were cardiac surgeries, paediatric cardiology and advanced diagnostic cardiology. Assessment on feedback of the students and interpretation of the interviews of medical educators, students and patients and grading of lectures from 0-10 was undertaken. Seventy two percent liked the active participation of students in the constructivist method of teaching. Seventy two percent of the participants found power point presentations as monotonous and no different from the usual didactic lectures conducted in the class room teaching. There was an up gradation of scores after the teaching sessions for clinical case discussion, ECG, BLS/ACLS and cardiac surgeries. The medical educators also found the constructivist method of teaching more practical. Constructivist method of teaching may be regarded as a new better way of teaching medical students as it considers the students as adult learners and promotes self learning.","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125687900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infinite Ability: The Confluence of Disability and Medical Humanities","authors":"Satendra Singh","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100103","url":null,"abstract":"In June 2011, Infinite Ability, a new special interest group on disability within the Medical Humanities Group was formed to explore disability through creativity. Disability studies are sporadically used in Medical Humanities program. Since persons with disabilities constitute a large minority, we need to bridge the gap so as to move towards social model of disability. The author describe an innovation of reaching people with disabled attitude through medical humanities and believes further research can help in incorporating new evidences towards achieving new special interest group on disability and initial activities in sensitizing people","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128108676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dam Burst of Emotion","authors":"Ayesha Ahmad","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100113","url":null,"abstract":"WHO estimates that every year around 15 million babies are born preterm. Of these, around 1 million babies die due to complications of preterm birth. Survival is dependent on the quality of health care available to these babies. It is estimated that more than 3/4th of babies can be salvaged by timely and appropriate care. The author considered herself to be one of the privileged members of society, being a doctor themselves, living in a metropolitan society and having access to the best healthcare in the country. However, this overconfidence was rudely shaken when they ran from one hospital to another in search of a ventilator for their as yet unborn baby. The author's pregnancy and child birth brought them closer to the millions of parents who undergo the trauma of having a premature baby.","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131721697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proposal for Integration of Bioethics in Phase I Undergraduate Medical Curriculum in India","authors":"Chetana P. Hadimani","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100102","url":null,"abstract":"Bioethics is now regarded as an integral part of contemporary medical education across the world. This proposal of integration of Bioethics in phase one undergraduate medical curriculum is, to bridge the gap between classroom learning, bedside application and further in community practice to give better health care and a good harmony between Doctors and Society. This aims in covering the curricular approaches in order to enforce values of bioethical principles in medical practice.","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132208138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘To Be or Not to Be': Altruism Needed for Our Progeny: A Commentary on “Reforming Medical Education- Some Eccentric Thinking”","authors":"R. Pal","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100111","url":null,"abstract":"The world will ever grow as the offspring are more intellectual and intelligent than their forefathers. So in the era of global explosion of knowledge and ever increasing information base with plenty of publications amidst immense improvements in information technology, we have to think of sharing our thinking with the descendants.","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116437958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Significance of the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Ethics: Literature Review with Focus on Students' Experiences","authors":"A. Nalini","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100101","url":null,"abstract":"The need to teach medical professionalism, especially medical ethics, has been emphasized by medical educators. The aim of medical ethics education is providing the basic knowledge regarding ethical analysis, enabling the students to develop the analytical skills for resolving the ethical dilemmas in clinical practice. But, a more important aspect is the assimilation of the core values of the profession by the students. The hidden curriculum, “the informal learning in which the students engage and which is unrelated to what is taught†(Harden, 2001, p.16) has a greater role in imparting education regarding the humanistic aspects of medical practice than the formal curriculum. Experiences of the medical students in the clinical setting should be considered significant for ethics education by the teachers. A review of the experiences of the students and the ethical dilemmas they face during the clinical clerkships is provided and their impact on the moral development of the students is analysed.","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126811264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reforming Medical Education: Some Eccentric Thinking","authors":"Jayesh Khaddar","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100107","url":null,"abstract":"The academic discussions on the way medical education needs to be reformed often revolve around how to make it more interesting & more clinically relevant, while any discussions regarding these issues is welcome, it is equally essential to enlarge the scope of the debate on educational reform from merely focusing on skill related issues and pay attention to an equally important issue of shaping the outlook of a medical graduate who needs to become socially responsible. The paper highlights the depoliticized nature of medical education & its implications on the outlook of a medical graduate. It argues for a need to add a human touch to the medical curriculum, it looks into some initiatives taken in this direction while also arguing for the need to also learn from experiments in other disciplines.","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"271 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116628345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching: Learning Humanities in a New Perspective","authors":"M. Shah, Fatima Khan","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100112","url":null,"abstract":"Empathy, compassion and kindness are some of the virtues that often get ignored amidst the tough study schedule, through the entire professional course. This is where a medical student loses those virtues and compassion for humanity that on the first instance obligated him to join this stream of medicine, despite the odds. The medical humanities can have both instrumental and non-instrumental functions in a medical school curriculum. The instrumental functions are met through the different aspect of their curriculum but there is little room for non-instrumental functions. This article deals with the unique way of teaching learning humanities by means of an organization that was conceptualized and is being nurtured and managed by the medical students for the welfare of the patients and communities but what makes the organization unique in itself is in a sense that it is run by medical students, it teaches budding healers how to be a good human being with concern for society especially underprivileged section of society.","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127681275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Radiologist's Art in CT Images","authors":"P. Mahant","doi":"10.4018/IJUDH.2013100109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJUDH.2013100109","url":null,"abstract":"The story of medical imaging starts on 8 Nov, 1895, when Wilhelm Conrad RA¶ntgen accidentally discovered X rays. Since then it has undergone great technological advancements helping physicians create images of the human body to reveal, diagnose, or examine disease (X-ray, n.d). CT scans combine the use of computers and x-rays to create virtual 'slices' of what is inside our body without cutting it open. Earlier many diseases could only be confirmed at autopsy. In 2010, more than 5 billion medical imaging studies were completed done worldwide (X-ray computed tomography, n.d).","PeriodicalId":211533,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133011901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}