A Spoonful of Eponyms Helps the Pathology Go Down: Using Food Eponyms and Visual Mnemonics in Preclinical Pathology Education.

ABSTRACT: Food eponymophilia in medicine describes a phenomenon by which diseases or pathologies are named for food items, such as "oat cell carcinoma" or "coffee bean nucleus." Some argue that these metaphors enrich medical education by providing familiar analogies to communicate pathology that is otherwise difficult to describe. Others argue that these metaphors are esoteric, burdensome, culturally irrelevant, and outdated. Few studies have ever focused on the use of metaphors in medical education, and even fewer have focused particularly on pathology or food eponyms. We aim to investigate the use of food eponyms in undergraduate medical education, particularly in pathology education, at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. We used an interactive learning module to objectively as

SUBMITTER: Seto C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8814165 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature