Intermediate result of the Harvard integrative course at IEUOnly 10% of students reached this stage. And we don’t know who are more satisfied: lecturers who saw the results or students who were able to integrate basic disciplines into practice in the early years of the medical school.
The lesson began with a checklist: Recommend an interesting book you have recently read. It was the occasion to discuss the importance of books in training doctors.
The next step was to discuss the role of nurses. They were perceived only as the doctor’s “hands” during the previous class, but now we moved on to the realization of equal teamwork between a doctor and a nurse. Besides, students found out that compliance is no longer a modern patient-oriented term from the Family Medicine textbook. To the surprise and delight of the lecturer, they independently compared new concepts of alignment and commitment with a dance practiced by one of the students.
As at every lesson, participants in the IEU’s Double Helix Curriculum shifted to diagnostic tasks. Some had to find the aorta, some had to find kidneys, and others had to measure the thyroid gland or optic nerve on the ultrasound. Students are no longer afraid of mistakes because they know that mistakes are the most valuable part of learning!
The class ended with feedback:
— “A nurse is an independent but also a team player.”
— “Commitment is a dance between a doctor and a patient.”
— “I learned how to detect the left kidney, as it always hide behind.”
We continue our experimental course and are ready to promote it among all IEU students.
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