Cinemeducation Using Film and Other Visual Media in Graduate and Medical Education

Forewords. Overview . Let's look at the data: review of the literature. Teaching us what it means to be human: why movies move us. Diving deep: Jung's layers of the psyche. Family functioning and health . Two to tango: couples in the cinema. The kids are not all right: adolescents facing challenges and disappointments. Blood is thicker than water: families, celebrations and holidays. Aging progressions: from independence to frailty. Specific disease states . Chemicals and processes: abuse and addiction. Betting on your life: pathological gambling. Tragedy and transcendence: cancer. Your sugar is high, m'am: diabetes. The heart of the matter: cardiac disease. The emergence of a chronic illness: HIV. The stakes are very high: high risk OB. Mental health issues . From burnout, harassment and job loss to despair, engagement and recovery: workplace issues. Saying goodbye: loss and bereavement. Hard lives: trauma from abuse and violence. Blood lust: suicide and cutting. Personality typing anyone? Myers-briggs personality indicator. More personality typing: the enneagram. Movie portrayals of health care professionals . This won't hurt a bit: novocaine and other sorrows. Beyond nurse ratchet: nursing. Let's analyze everything: individual, couple and group therapy. Call me in some hydrocodone, please: pharmacy. Vets and pets: domesticated animals and the veterinarians who care for them. Specialties . Sweat, tears and the finish line: sports medicine and sports psychology. Better safe than sorry: medical malpractice. Make me like new: rehabilitation medicine. Bringing the war home: military medicine/psychology. Going under the knife: surgical interventions. Trauma and toil: emergency room medicine. Brain matters: traumatic brain injury. More than sex education: sexuality and health. Gender agenda: women in medicine. More than a prayer: pastoral care and psychotherapy. Mind your peas: dietary and nutrition. 9 to 5 (and then some): occupational medicine. Compassion and medicine . Easing the pain: palliative care. On the outside looking in: marginalized populations and health disparities. The humanitarian physician: international medical missions. When nature becomes the enemy: disaster medicine. Crocks and docs: disruptive patient/disruptive provider. Right, wrong and in-between: medical ethics. I feel your pain: empathy in medicine. Alternative formats . Too reel for comfort: reality TV. The small screen: television, medicine and teaching. Is fact better than fiction?: documentaries. Me, you and YouTube: cutting edge teaching. Save the last chapter for melody and verse: music videos. Appendices. List of movies. Editors' top ten movie picks. References.

Biography

Alexander Matthew, Patrica Lenahan, Ann Pavlov