Hello everyone!
This one is the response I got from a Faculty of Medical education
doing a project on making DVD for humanistic skills for chronic
diseases.
"Dr. Singh
We'll be getting out a batch of the films out next week -- I don't
know how long they will
take to arrive. I'll send a letter along with the DVD that explains
a little more about
the project.
Please do let me know how the films are used!
Should you ever be interested in conducting the project in India I'd
be happy to offer
whatever wisdom I've accumulated.
Warmly,
Dan Shapiro
On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Dr Kuldeep Singh wrote:
Dear Dr Shapiro,
I appreciate you and your team's effort in carrying out this marvelous
project on living
with chronic diseases. We often could not demonstrate this aspect to
medical students. I
would also like to view this DVD and use in our medical education
unit. Please send them to
me if you are left with some.
With regards
Dr Kuldeep Singh
Professor Pediatrics
Co-ordinator, Medical Education Unit,
Shri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences,
Indore-Ujjain Highway,
INDORE, Madhya Pradesh,
INDIA
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:43:04 -0700
From:
sha...@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Med students as filmmakers dvd available -- Gold Foundation
Hi all,
We've just finished our second round of documentary filmmaking, the
patients as teachers, medical students as filmmakers video project.
Here at Arizona we're teaching our medical students about living
with
serious chronic illness by having them make short (7-10 minute)
films
about patients with serious chronic illnesses -- they visit patients
at their homes for 8 months and then edit (and edit and edit etc).
Then the films are shown in a "video slam" which we just had this
week
(we have 8 new films).
As part of a professorship from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, I'm
trying to spread the word about the project. Last years 4 films are
already in use at a number of med schools.
Patients in this years films include a little girl who just had an
amputation for sarcoma, a young man with recently diagnosed paranoid
schizophrenia, an middle-aged woman with Parkinsons etc etc. I found
many of the films moving and compelling (but I'm horribly biased.)
We've got initial supportive data that we're writing up -- but these
student films speak for themselves in some ways.
They have many teaching points in them -- I have some extra DVD's
and
will mail to anyone who wants to see them (free) as long as you are
willing to report back about if and how you use them.
Warmly,
Dan
Dan Shapiro, Ph.D
Arnold P. Gold Associate Professor of Medical Humanism
Director of Medical Humanities Program
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Box 245002, U Arizona Health Sciences Center
1501 N.Campbell Ave
Tucson, Arizona 85724-5002
sha...@u.arizona.edu
520 626 7089 (direct) /
520 626 2357 (admin)"