1st Edition

Helping a Field See Itself Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education

Edited By Mario Veen, Anna T. Cianciolo Copyright 2024
152 Pages
by CRC Press

152 Pages
by CRC Press

The perceived value of philosophy to medical education is increasing. But beyond the occasional application of philosophical concepts, what does it mean to be philosophical about medical education and to do philosophy—to create new concepts and ways of thinking about what medical education is? The complex and dynamic nature of academic medicine requires medical educators to reflect on their... Read more

Foreword

Megan E. L. Brown

1. Problems No One Looked For: Philosophical Expeditions into Medical Education

Mario Veen and Anna T. Cianciolo

2. Beyond the Medical Model: Thinking Differently about Medical Education and Medical Education Research

Gert J. J. Biesta and Marije van Braak

3. Teaching Medical Epistemology within an Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum

Mark R. Tonelli and Robyn Bluhm

4. Language, Philosophy, and Medical Education

John R. Skelton

5. Contending with Our Racial Past in Medical Education: A Foucauldian Perspective

Zareen Zaidi, Ian M. Partman, Cynthia R.Whitehead, Ayelet Kuper and Tasha R. Wyatt

6. Phenomenological Research in Health Professions Education: Tunneling from Both Ends

Chris Rietmeijer and Mario Veen

7. Black, White and Gray: Student Perspectives on Medical Humanities and Medical Education

Madeleine Noelle Olding, Freya Rhodes, John Humm, Phoebe Ross and Catherine McGarry

8. Because We Care: A Philosophical Investigation into the Spirit of Medical Education

Camillo Coccia and Mario Veen

9. A Matter of Trust: Online Proctored Exams and the Integration of Technologies of Assessment in Medical Education

Tim Fawns and Sven P. C. Schaepkens

10. Being-Opposite-Illness: Phenomenological Ontology in Medical Education and Clinical Practice

John Humm

11. The Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography

Anna MacLeod, Victoria Luong, Paula Cameron, George Kovacs, Molly Fredeen, Lucy Patrick, Olga Kits and Jonathan Tummons

12. Technical Difficulties: Teaching Critical Philosophical Orientations toward Technology

Benjamin Chin-Yee, Laura Nimmon and Mario Veen

13. Mind the Gap: A Philosophical Analysis of Reflection’s Many Benefits

Sven P. C. Schaepkens and Thijs Lijster

14. Conclusions: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education

Anna T. Cianciolo and Mario Veen

Biography

Mario Veen is Assistant Professor Educational Research at the Department of General Practice of Erasmus MC, interested in correspondences between philosophy and medical education. He has an interdisciplinary background in philosophy, social science and the humanities. He hosts the podcasts Let Me Ask You Something and Life From Plato’s Cave.

Anna T. Cianciolo is Associate Professor of Medical Education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Editor-in-Chief of Teaching and Learning in Medicine, and a lover of questions. Her professional passion is to conduct and cultivate scholarship that empowers others to raise questions and explore answers together.