Showing posts with label medical education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical education. Show all posts
Friday, November 13, 2015
Elizabeth Blackwell
We read the excellent Judy Moody books to son #1, and now we have started reading the first one in the series to son #2. I can't remember how we first came across the books, but if you are not familiar with them, you can find out more about Judy and the books on her website.
You may by now be wondering what Judy has to do with the title of this post. Well, Judy knows about Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor, and wants to be a doctor too. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to be awarded an MD degree in the United States, in 1849. She supported medical education for women, and wrote books about it, and founded a hospital in New York in 1857 as a way to enable women to get medical internships. She was actually born in Bristol, England, and moved to the United States as a child.
Here are some places to find out more:
National Library of Medicine - Changing the Face of Medicine. This site celebrates America's women physicians, with biographies of physicians past and present.
National Women's History Museum, Alexandria, Virginia (as it happens, Judy Moody's home state).
Schlesinger Library Newsletter, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard. The Library has information about the Blackwell family, which included Elizabeth's sister Emily, who with her promoted medical education for women. Other family members included important people in the abolition movement, and the first woman church minister in the United States. The Library's information about the family includes a link to digitised family papers.
Wellcome Trust
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York State. The colleges are the successor to Geneva Medical College, where Blackwell studied.
Science Museum, London.
NNDB. Biographical site, whose NNDB Mapper enables you to explore links between the subjects of the biographies and learned societies. There are no links for Blackwell, not yet, anyway.
Blackwell's Wikipedia entry is quite extensive and has links to a range of other material.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman in England to qualify in medicine, met Blackwell, and needs to have a post all to herself.
Friday, September 04, 2015
Narrative medicine
We recently had a very good fortnight at the lovely Treshnish and Haunn Cottages on the beautiful Isle of Mull, and among the books on the shelves there was a copy of an issue of Granta about medicine (issue 120, Summer 2012, see here for a contents list - full articles only available to subscribers).
One of the pieces was by Chris Adrian, a published novelist who is also a paediatrician in the USA. It was (or appeared to be) an address to students at his old medical school, about narrative medicine, but interspersed with his own story (of that of his character, but either way demonstrating the use of narrative).
Narrative medicine is the use of patients' or practitioners' stories in health care, or the use of fiction to explore health issues. (Thanks to a slide presentation from the East Scotland Postgraduate GP Training Unit for that).
In the piece, there is mention of two articles in Academic Medicine, a real journal. I was interested to check to see if these were real articles, and they appear to be.
First, an article by Dasgupta of Columbia University. This is PMID 15044169, about empathy, although PMID 25945967 is much more recent and by the same author. (PubMed puts these two in a box at the top of the search results, as well as among the search results, which include results containing the word academic and the word medicine, as well as those results in the journal of that name).
And then, one by Kumagai of the University of Michigan. Because foolishly I have forgotten to make any more detailed note about what the article was about, I am not sure which of the 20 odd results it is!
A PubMed search using the journal abbreviation (Acad Med) still looks for acad and med separately, but finds fewer red herrings than using the full words.
A few links for more information:
Columbia University Medical Center's Program in Narrative Medicine - as well as details of the activities and courses of the Program, there is a bibliography of work by Program members.
King's College London has a Centre for the Humanities and Health, which has been involved in setting up an International Network of Narrative Medicine.
The BMJ has published a short series of articles about narrative based medicine (you will need a subscription to read the articles). Trisha Greenhalgh and Brian Hurwitz, the authors of at least some of these articles, also wrote a book called Narrative based medicine: dialogue and discourse in clinical practice (ask your librarian, unless you are one, of course!).
One of the pieces was by Chris Adrian, a published novelist who is also a paediatrician in the USA. It was (or appeared to be) an address to students at his old medical school, about narrative medicine, but interspersed with his own story (of that of his character, but either way demonstrating the use of narrative).
Narrative medicine is the use of patients' or practitioners' stories in health care, or the use of fiction to explore health issues. (Thanks to a slide presentation from the East Scotland Postgraduate GP Training Unit for that).
In the piece, there is mention of two articles in Academic Medicine, a real journal. I was interested to check to see if these were real articles, and they appear to be.
First, an article by Dasgupta of Columbia University. This is PMID 15044169, about empathy, although PMID 25945967 is much more recent and by the same author. (PubMed puts these two in a box at the top of the search results, as well as among the search results, which include results containing the word academic and the word medicine, as well as those results in the journal of that name).
And then, one by Kumagai of the University of Michigan. Because foolishly I have forgotten to make any more detailed note about what the article was about, I am not sure which of the 20 odd results it is!
A PubMed search using the journal abbreviation (Acad Med) still looks for acad and med separately, but finds fewer red herrings than using the full words.
A few links for more information:
Columbia University Medical Center's Program in Narrative Medicine - as well as details of the activities and courses of the Program, there is a bibliography of work by Program members.
King's College London has a Centre for the Humanities and Health, which has been involved in setting up an International Network of Narrative Medicine.
The BMJ has published a short series of articles about narrative based medicine (you will need a subscription to read the articles). Trisha Greenhalgh and Brian Hurwitz, the authors of at least some of these articles, also wrote a book called Narrative based medicine: dialogue and discourse in clinical practice (ask your librarian, unless you are one, of course!).
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