Thursday, January 16, 2020

Patient as teacher Video part 1

The objective of sharing this video https://youtu.be/xvE5b8Xk3vM
is to take a "flipped classroom" approach to building up the discussion to our presentation on the same topic detailed here https://mecon2020.com/day2.help


Our aim is to try and change the assessment system that currently drives most Indian Medical college curricula and try to convince powers that be to move toward an assessment paradigm focused on identifying a student's competency to help her patient, who we believe is the greatest teacher she can ever hope to get throughout her life as a doctor.

The current assessment system that drives most curricula in Indian Medical colleges unfortunately does just the opposite of building student competency in helping patients. Most current medical students may feel discouraged to waste time helping patients as they know very well they are never going to be assessed for it.

It would be a simple matter of utilizing a students online learning portfolio (also demonstrated in the video) to assess the student regularly, formatively, as the patient related information in the student's learning portfolio assessment would also be vital to the faculty in helping the patient regularly but we don't foresee this simple tweak happening too soon because helping patients will not support vested human interests that gains from hurried (system 1) "overdiagnosis and overtreatment," which is a burning issue with industry driven medicine that has gradually alienated the doctor patient relationship and separated doctors from their patient's lives and made them more and more defensive. More here on this topic https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6163835/ published by our elective students.


A transparent, system 2, evidence based academic discussion around each patient along with more and more scaling of patient centered innovations (as demonstrated in the video) that we hope to gradually achieve, may be able to prevent the increasing gulf between doctors and patients.

Will be also looking forward to the audience responses to this and hope to debate this further here as well as during the session on the 25th of this month. Our student will share a zoom link to the session soon.

Meanwhile we look forward to more people attending our electives detailed here http://promotions.bmj.com/jnl/bmj-case-reports-student-electives-2
and together build a strong competent primary healthcare workforce for India. 

1 comment:

Avinash Kumar said...

link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvE5b8Xk3vM