Just a short post. Last week I saw Annemarie Mol speak at COMET09 about the 'messiness' of clinical practice. Today I received an email from a colleague where we were discussiing the fact that many aspects of medicine do not "offer a script". And then through Rakesh Biswas I came across this blog of Shashikiran Umakanth, a physician and associate professor in India. His former student comments that "no patient comes in a neatly packed diagnostic disease".
So these metaphors of medicine are about its complexity and unpredictability. But do we acknowlege this in our medical courses?
What are your metaphors for medicine and how do they inform the way we prepare students to become doctors?
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Metaphors of Medicine... and implications for medical education
Posted on 09:38 by Unknown
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