Turning Roadblocks into Stepping Stones: Teaching Psychology to Physicians

Painter, Albert F.; Lemkau, Jeanne Parr

doi:10.1207/s15328023top1903_20

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“…For learning and application to take place, psychology content should be relevant and meaningful with global application (Jansen and Nicholl 2007;Mowforth, Harrison, and Morris 2005). Case study scenarios are proposed as an effective method (Jansen and Nicholl 2007;Jordan 1998;Painter and Lemkau 1992). Nevertheless, a review of teaching methods to determine the effectiveness of one approach over another highlights that there is no one method that has a clear advantage (Thompson and Stapley 2011).…”

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Teaching psychology to student nurses: the use of ‘Talking Head’ videos

Snelgrove

Tait

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2016

Research in Learning Technology

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Psychology is a central part of undergraduate nursing curricula in the UK. However, student nurses report difficulties recognising the relevance and value of psychology. We sought to strengthen first-year student nurses' application of psychology by developing a set of digital stories based around 'Talking Head' video clips where authentic patients relate their experiences of illness and nursing care. The aim of this article is to discuss the technological, organisational and pedagogical challenges, student and staff evaluations and our recommendations for the future of Talking Heads. First-year student nurses were shown a video clip of a patient talking about their illness experiences followed by a group learning situation linking main themes to psychology and nursing. Students and staff valued the authenticity of patient's narrative, found the video clip easy to follow, reported a raised awareness of psychological concepts and improved empathetic understanding of chronic illness. Negative evaluations were related to a sanitised, untypical representation and limited internet access. This small-scale study highlighted how patient narrative may enhance students understanding of illness experience. It chronicles the development and evaluation of a Talking Head in a specific context but which may be useful across disciplines.

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