ABTH VI Kobe Japan Sub-Theme: Diversity in IPE Round table presentation
Handout for attendees
Title: The Arts and Humanities in Interprofessional Education
Presenters in Kobe: Dr Sundari Joseph (Lead); Dr Lesley Diack; Mrs Jenni Haxton
Module team in Aberdeen,
Scotland, UK:
Dr Andrew McKie, Lecturer in Nursing
(Mental Health) (Module Leader)
Mrs. Violet Adams, Lecturer in
Nursing
Dr. Fiona Garton, General Practice
and Community Medical Education
Dr. Sundari Joseph Lecturer in
Interprofessional Education
Dr. Colin MacDuff, Reader School of
Nursing and Midwifery
Mrs. Stephanie Morrison, Lecturer in
Occupational Therapy.
Objectives
The objectives of the presentation
are to enable the audience to
appraise the value of the arts and
humanities in relation to their own
educational and professional
perspectives and to analyse the place
of the arts and humanities in
facilitating interprofessional
discourse.
Critical perspectives from
Arts and Humanities
Kit Bag- Dr Margaret Hannah
http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com/reports/iff_kitbag_brochure.pdf
Kitbag is used as an icebreaker at
the start of the module to get the
students started on this journey of
thinking very differently about the
person they are and the professional
they want to be.
The Scream
Edvard Munch 1893
Using images and objects such as
this the students critically appraise
their merits or demerits in
understanding professional practice.
They become more self aware and
begin to analyse their understanding
of the human experience.
•Medical,
nursing and
occupational therapy students
•Module
“Arts and Humanities in
health and Social Care contexts”
The module has run for 2 years
2010-2011 with 30 students per
cohort
A variety of literature is used to
facilitate interprofessional discourse.
Professional
behaviour
Films
Science
Music
Professional
Art
Personal
Photos
Clinical
skills
Social
Sciences
Literature
The students have to make the shift
from science perspectives to arts and
humanities perspectives.
A music workshop is led by the
students‟ choice of music and a
variety of films are used. These
genres foster a different
understanding of the human
experience.
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ABTH VI Kobe Japan Sub-Theme: Diversity in IPE Round table presentation
Handout for attendees
Title: The Arts and Humanities in Interprofessional Education
Presenters in Kobe: Dr Sundari Joseph (Lead); Dr Lesley Diack; Mrs Jenni Haxton
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Through poetry they can develop self
awareness
“You‟re a male nurse then?”
Yes. Here I stand:
That‟s me:
male nurse
wet water
wooden tree.
C. Macduff (2007) „Male Nurse‟
Through poetry they can develop
self-awareness….
This poem is written by one of our
module team.
“..looking at the same thing, and
not seeing the same thing”
BAXTER, S. & BRUMFITT, S.,
2008. Professional Differences in
Interprofessional Working.
Journal of Interprofessional Care
Vol 22 (3), pp. 239 – 51
All through these workshops is the
notion that we each look at the same
thing and yet we don‟t see things the
same way.
As people, we may feel the same
emotions about a particular issue but
as professionals coming from
different disciplines we can see
things very differently.
So this module challenges the
students to address this and become
more aware of each other‟s
perspectives and therefore influence
their future practice.
They can question what impact their
professional role has on another‟s.
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Interesting
Wide variety of genres
Reflection process
References
EDGAR, A. and PATTISON, S.
2006. Need the humanities be
so useless? Justifying the
place of the humanities as a
critical resource for
performance and practice.
Journal of Medical Ethics:
Medical Humanities 32 2 9298
FAULKS, S. 2006. Human
Traces. London: Vintage
Books
KITBAG
http://www.internationalfutur
esforum.com/reports/iff_kitba
g_brochure.pdf
MACDUFF, C. 2007. In Wards,
Out Wards: Poems from
Nursing and Beyond.
Adelaide: The Joanna Briggs
Institute
MCKIE, A., ADAMS, V., GASS,
J.P. AND MACDUFF, C. 2008.
Windows and mirrors:
Reflections of a module team
teaching the arts in nurse
education. Nurse Education in
Practice. 8 156-164
What do our students say…..
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Healthcare from another
perspective
Meet new people
Multidisciplinary work
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