Cinemeducation - using film in medical education

Medical Humanities uses the humanities, social sciences and the arts to inform and enhance medicine. 

Cinemeducation - the use of film in this endeavor - is a part of this field.

This applied field of study has mostly been used for professionalism and end-of-life issues, as you can see in the original article by Dr. Matthew Alexander in Family Medicine in 2002 The Doctor: A Seminal Video for Cinemeducation and later is the book, Cinemeducation: a Comprehensive Guide to Using Film in Medical Education: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Film in Medical Education, by Drs. Matthew Alexander, Anna Pavlov, and Patricia Lenahan.

Another nice database is maintained by the NYU School of Medicine: Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database at NYU School of Medicine.

We (Michael Luther and John Waits) are presenting the humorous side of cinemeducation at the 43rd STFM Annual Spring Conference (“These Are My Muffin Slacks”: Using The Humor of Television’s “Scrubs” In Medical Education)... and have found very few resources on this lighter side.

We've started a list of the medical content for Season 1 of Scrubs... and are hoping others will join in the task of adding to this list.

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What do you think of the growing use of YouTube for medical and patient education?

[John B. Waits, MD]

First, I think that this is going to become more and more common. As more and more people post to YouTube, more and more quality information is going to be available. A recent scholarly poster was presented at this same STFM conference noted above about using YouTube in medical education and is quoted below:

SP12 The "Wired" Medical Home: Teaching Vaginal Delivery Via YouTube (Scholastic Poster) by Leonard Lamsen, MD; Sigrid Johnson, MD, MSC, FAAFP; Lorraine Wallace, PhD

"YouTube was queried using search terms “vaginal delivery” and “vaginal birth.” Videoclips were classified as “educational,” “personal,” or “miscellaneous.” Sixty-five unique videoclips were identified, with 31 (47%) classified as “educational.” Our results indicate that YouTube can be used as part of a curriculum for teaching uncomplicated obstetrics to residents."

http://www.stfm.org/conferences/annual/an/submissionsearch_2010/results.cfm

Obviously, it is going to be a challenge to assess the accuracy and quality of the "publications" of web 2.0 resources.

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