Tell Me Your Story - interactive student exercise

Tell Me Your Story - interactive student exercise
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
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Product ID: 18645

Abstract: 
"Tell Me Your Story" is a new and unique experience integrated into the UCollege's Orientation program. Historically Orientation has only included study skill sessions, ice breakers, and introductions to frequently used student resources. The capstone of Orientation is a White Coat Ceremony, inducting each student into the fraternity of medicine. "Tell Me Your Story" is an opportunity for new students to explore the concepts of professionalism and the patient's perspective on health care as they try on their new roles as healers. Two students are paired with an older well adult resident of the Maple Knoll Village, a large local retirement community. Students conduct a focused 50 minute interview with the resident. Format: Deomonstration or Simulation, Lecture, Experiential

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Educational objectives: 
The goals of this Year I Orientation exercise is to create a shared experience with an older well adult outside the clinical setting that does the following: 1. Create an educational opportunity for learners in their new role as medical students to gain knowledge from the experiences, stories and wisdom of older adults about the impact of their health care and their physicians on their lives. 2. Provide an introduction and integration of the key concepts of the patient-doctor relationship taught in the first year of medical school. 3. Enhance the student's communication and listening skills. 4. Explore the patient-doctor relationship through the older adult's perspective. 5. Foster an educational experience with an older well adult who is not in the role of patient. At the end of this exercise, students will be able to demonstrate the following knowledge and attitudes related to the well elderly, including minority older persons: Knowledge: 1. Students will understand the older adult's perspective of professionalism in the patient-doctor relationship. 2. Students will explore the context of ethical challenges in the patient-doctor relationship with an older adult. 3. Students will discuss with an older adult the importance of the older adult's family background, culture, ethnicity, religion or spirituality in the patient-doctor relationship. 4. Students will recognize the challenges our health care system poses to older adults in a residential setting. Attitudes: 1. Students will begin to appreciate intimacy needs and barriers the older adult faces as life partners die and living arrangements change in residential setting. 2. Students will reflect on how this experience with an older adult changed or reinforced previously held conceptions about older adults in our society. 3. Students will share their perceptions on the challenges older adults face as they navigate in the health care system.
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
Used at a retirement community setting.
Date posted: 
Fri, 12/01/2006
Date last updated: 
Fri, 12/01/2006
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
Learning resource types: 
Contact person/corresponding author: 
Barbara Tobias (TobiasBa@Fammed.uc.edu)
Authors: 
Barbara Tobias
NLM Citation:
Tobias, B. Tell Me Your Story - interactive student exercise. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2006 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/18645
APA Citation:
Tobias, B. (2006). Tell Me Your Story - interactive student exercise. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/18645