"Now I know how to not repeat history": Teaching and Learning Through a Pandemic with the Medical Humanities.
Medical humanities
Pandemic
Student learning gains
Undergraduate education
Journal
The Journal of medical humanities
ISSN: 1573-3645
Titre abrégé: J Med Humanit
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8917478
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
accepted:
21
10
2021
pubmed:
10
11
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
entrez:
9
11
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We reflect on our experience co-teaching a medical humanities elective, "Pandemics and Plagues," which was offered to undergraduates during the Spring 2021 semester, and discuss student reactions to studying epidemic disease from multidisciplinary medical humanities perspectives while living through the world Covid-19 pandemic. The course incorporated basic microbiology and epidemiology into discussions of how epidemics from the Black Death to HIV/AIDS have been portrayed in history, literature, art, music, and journalism. Students self-assessed their learning gains and offered their insights using the SALG (Student Assessment of their Learning Gains), describing how the course enhanced their understanding of the current pandemic. In class discussions and written assignments, students paid particular attention to issues of social justice, political context, and connections between past pandemics and Covid-19. Student responses indicate enhanced understanding of the scientific and medical aspects of epidemics and also increased appreciation of the insights to be gained from the medical humanities. We discuss co-teaching the class during a real-time, twenty-four-hour-news-cycle pandemic, and the ways in which that experience underlines the value of a "critical medical humanities" approach for undergraduates.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34750698
doi: 10.1007/s10912-021-09716-z
pii: 10.1007/s10912-021-09716-z
pmc: PMC8575676
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
571-585Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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