Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
5th Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education, Paris, Fransa, 24 - 26 Haziran 2015
5th Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education
Paris, 24-26 June 2015, Oral
Presentation Abstract
The Production and Use of
Audio-Visual Narratives in Ethics Education:
An Experience from Turkey
Mustafa Volkan Kavas[1],
Kevser Vatansever[2]
, Yesim Isil Ulman[3]
The
use of cinematographic narratives as an educational material in medical
education dates fairly back to produce a certain material based on theoretical
and practical content. It has been soon realized that the audio-visual
narratives could be so helpful for clinical and biomedical ethics
teaching. Film sequences and excerpts
from films are frequently and functionally utilized, in medical, nursing
schools and similar professional institutions, to keep the students attention
alive during learning process, to exemplify the ethical behaviour and attitude
of characters, to stabilize the effects and probable outcomes of macro and
micro determinants on person’s actions and choices, and more importantly, to
analyse the function of theoretical knowledge over practice by means of
convincing human experiences. This educational technique is argued to be
distinctly more influential than the conventional methods of teaching to raise
awareness and to make the students reflect on the ethical values.
Some
schools of medicine in Turkey benefit from the existing audiovisual narrative
materials in education, while some of them prefer to use original audiovisual
materials that are produced to cover certain learning domains of their
undergraduate medical curricula. For instance, as integrated into the medical
education, a documentary film called “Scent of Illness” (Hastalık Kokusu) produced by an amateur collective seeking to
discover “the meaning of being a chronical patient” is used in ethics education
by Ankara University School of Medicine as well as in Ege University School of
Medicine (Izmir) and Acibadem University School of Medicine (Istanbul).
Similarly, “the Dust”, a short documentary film on the story of victimization
of sandblasting denim workers is used in accordance with the curriculum of
medical ethics and humanities in Acibadem University School of Medicine. A
personal approach to death and experiences about the interactions with health
professionals, told as a self-narrative by a fatally cancer diagnosed patient
is used in “delivering bad news” small group teaching in Ege University School
of Medicine.
[1] Ankara University, School of Medicine, History of Medicine and Ethics, Assist. Prof. Dr, kavas@ankara.edu.tr
[2] Ege University, School of Medicine, History of Medicine and Ethics, Assist. Prof. Dr. Izmir
[3] Acibadem University, School of Medicine, History of Medicine and Ethics, Prof. Dr. Istanbul,