'Workshops in healing' for senior medical students: a 5-year overview and appraisal.

ABSTRACT: We report upon the design, content and feedback from an interactive, experiential series of Workshops in Healing for senior medical students. Fifty-six final year medical students enrolled in 2×3 h workshops designed around the core themes of 'physician know thyself' (Workshop 1) and 'confronting suffering' (Workshop 2). Of the 56 students who initially enrolled, 48 students completed both workshops and provided a written open-ended reflection of their learning experience. The study, undertaken over a consecutive 5-year period (2008-2012), employed an emergent, qualitative design using thematic analysis of the reflective comments. We found that the design and content of both workshops promoted transformative learning for these final year medical students. Students identified the following

SUBMITTER: Kearsley JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4251177 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature