Teaching compassion for social accountability: A parallaxic investigation
Cheu, Hoi F., Sameshima, Pauline, Strasser, Roger, Clithero-Eridon, Amy R., Ross, Brian, Cameron, Erin, Preston, Robyn, Allison, Jill, and Hu, Connie (2023) Teaching compassion for social accountability: A parallaxic investigation. Medical Teacher, 45 (4). pp. 404-411.
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Abstract
Background: In an arts integrated interdisciplinary study set to investigate ways to improve social accountability (SA) in medical education, our research team has established a renewed understanding of compassion in the current SA movement.
Aim: This paper explores the co-evolution of compassion and SA.
Methods: The study used an arts integrated approach to investigate people’s perceptions of SA in four medical schools across Australia, Canada, and the USA. Each school engaged approximately 25 participants who partook in workshops and in-depth interviews.
Results: We began with a study of SA and the topic of compassion emerged out of our qualitative data and biweekly meetings within the research team. Content analysis of the data and pedagogical discussion brought us to realize the importance of compassion in the practice of SA.
Conclusions: The cultivation of compassion needs to play a significant role in a socially accountable medical educational system. Medical schools as educational institutions may operate themselves with compassion as a driving force in engaging partnership with students and communities. Social accountability without compassion is not SA; compassion humanizes institutional policy by engaging sympathy and care.
| Item ID: | 76803 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1466-187X |
| Keywords: | Education environment, ethics, attitudes, medical education, social accountability |
| Copyright Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2022 07:44 |
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