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Teaching fearlessness: a manifesto.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  22267361     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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Context: Negative role modeling is a plague medical educators fight once students enter the clinical arena. The literature is replete on the fact that students routinely encounter faculty who display attitudes and behaviors inconsistent with the values taught throughout the medical curriculum, particularly in the preclinical years. Approach: Using a back and forth between the text of a third-year student's reflective essay and two of her faculty's observations on her negative encounters with several clinical faculty, the authors propose teaching for fearlessness. Discussion: Using Papadimos and Murray's use of fearless speech derived from Foucault's thinking on parrhesia, the authors build a case that students should be encouraged to expose and challenge inequities on behalf of their patients, themselves and the profession at large. Conclusions: Medical educators should model and provide students with opportunities to develop and use fearless speech as a way to reshape the culture of medical education and patient care.
Authors:
Delese Wear; Joseph Zarconi; Namrata Dhillon
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2011-12-08
Journal Detail:
Title:  Education for health (Abingdon, England)     Volume:  24     ISSN:  1469-5804     ISO Abbreviation:  Educ Health (Abingdon)     Publication Date:  2011 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-01-23     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9607101     Medline TA:  Educ Health (Abingdon)     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  668     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Rootstown, OH USA. dw@neomed.edu.
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