2. Introduction to Medical Humanities Student Selected Component ◙ rec
Suttie Centre Lecture Theatre
12th May 2017
Introduction to Medical Humanities Student Selected Component ◙ rec

3. Contact: Co-ordinator Medical Humanities Block
Dr Leeanne Bodkin
Room 129
Suttie Centre for Teaching & Learning in Healthcare
Tel

4. Dates of Medical Humanities SSC
Weeks 13 – 18 academic year
Mon 23rd October – Friday 1st Dec 2017
Dedicated Medical Humanities SSC
Exclusive medical humanities study
May be required to also attend FoCM
DVD recording and review

5. 3 courses

8. and cultural dimensions of medical and scientific knowledge,
Social, historical
and cultural dimensions of
medical and scientific knowledge,
clinical practice and healthcare
Kongo nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wellcome Image

9. from perspectives of practitioner, patients and others
Investigates the experience of medicine, health, illness and suffering
from perspectives of practitioner, patients and others
Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hille - Wellcome image

10. Seeks to compliment, critique and contextualise the perspectives of biomedicine alone
Personality Slice – Elizabeth Jamieson

11. Three Oncologists (Professor RJ Steele, Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri and Professor Sir David P Lane of the Department of Surgery and Molecular Oncology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.

12. Experience of illness and suffering
Suffering is experienced by persons, not merely by bodies, and has its source in challenges that threaten the intactness of the person as a complex social and psychological entity.
EJ Cassel N Engl J Med 1982; 306:

13. ‘I was in the first stage of consumption, and was suffering from something else, possibly even more serious than consumption. I don't know whether it was the effect of my illness or of an incipient change in my philosophy of life of which I was not conscious at the time, but I was, day by day, more possessed by a passionate, irritating longing for ordinary everyday life. I yearned for mental tranquillity, health, fresh air, good food.’
Taken from AN ANONYMOUS STORY by Anton Chekhov

14. Film Awakenings based on book by Dr Oliver Sacks
Moving briefly now to the perspective of the practitoner observing and wanting to relieve suffering. You all claimed in applying to study medicine that you were concerned with wanting to help people, to help your patients. This desire is fundamental to the practice of medicine and is often what drives us as in the 1990s film Awakenings based on the book by Oliver Sacks where he recounted his experience treating catatonic patients with the then new drug L-Dopa, the doctor played by Robin Willimas wants to improve the lot of his patients and in this clip receives the ultimate prize of achieving it, if as you probably know this was to be only briefly.
0:49-1:26

15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAz-prw_W2A 0:49-1:26

17. Graduate Attributes (I)
Academic Excellence
Breadth of knowledge, understanding and skills beyond your discipline
Intellectual curiosity, a willingness to question accepted wisdom and openness to new ideas
Contextual understanding of past and present knowledge and ideas
Learning and personal development
An openness to, and an interest in, life-long learning through directed and self-directed study
Capacity for self reflection, self discovery and personal development

18. Graduate Attributes (II)
Critical thinking and effective communication
Attentive exchange, expression of ideas, informed argument and reasoning
Study skills, reading, collection of evidence, synthesis, writing, and dispassionate critical analysis
Independent, conceptual and creative thinking
Communicate effectively for different purposes and in different contexts
Taking the initiative, working or researching independently
Active Citizenship
An awareness and appreciation of ethical and moral issues
An awareness and appreciation of social and cultural diversity

20. Making your choices MUST take 30 credits Three choices
Through ‘My curriculum’
You must complete registration
OPEN AUGUST for 2 WEEKS !!!

22. 30 Credits Courses A2: Medical Humanities Alternative Project
NEW CS: Cinema and Science
CW: Creative Writing for Medical Students
DR: Spirituality health and healing
EL: On-line Course Design for Medicine
GH: Global Health & Humanities
HA: Human Anatomy: Dissection With Historical, Cultural and Social Dimensions
HM: History of Medicine
NEW The Hospital: Health, Wellbeing and the Built Environment.
HS: Health Studies in Education
MM Mindfulness and Medicine
PM Philosophy and Medicine

23. 15 Credits Courses A1: Medical Humanities Alternative Project
BH Behaviour, Health and Wellbeing
BM: Birth of Modernity
E2: Essay Project History / Culture
ED: An Introduction to Medical Education
ES: Medicine and Economics
AF: Fine art and medicine
FP: Film as a Public Ethical Arena 
HT: History of Art
PP: Power and Piety: Medieval Europe

24. Introductory Languages Spanish / French / German /Gaelic /Swedish*
You must have a qualification (GCSE or standard grade)in the language of your choice and will be contacted to confirm this
The exceptions are Beginners’ Spanish and Swedish where no previous experience is required
You can only study one language
It is possible to learn other languages by evening class / self study / vacation courses
and Confucius institute
*NEW

26. Option One ME3330a ME3315a or ME3330b ME3315b ME3315c or ME3330c
1st choice
ME3330a
2nd choice
ME3315a or ME3330b
ME3315b
3rd choice
ME3315c or ME3330c
ME3315d
Put a 30 credit course as your first choice
2nd & 3rd choices can be 30 or 2x15 credits
15 credit courses are a PAIR linked 30 credits.
Only one language in a pair
You cannot REPEAT a course
MUST give alternatives

27. Option Two ME3315a ME3315b ME3315c ME3315d ME3315e ME3315f
1st choice
ME3315a
2nd choice
ME3315b
3rd choice
ME3315c
1st choice
ME3315d
2nd choice
ME3315e
3rd choice
ME3315f
Two 15 credit courses are NOT linked
Each allocation is a separate process
NOT possible to choose a 30 credit course as 2nd or 3rd choice
Cannot REPEAT a course need six courses a-f
MUST give alternatives
Only include languages in one list

28. Exploring the Courses Equivalent credits 30 credits = 300 hrs of study
Different timetables and structures
Different types of learning and assessment

29. Cost of Course Materials
Check for cost
textbooks
travel
other materials
Consider
second hand sources – last year’s students.
University Libraries
Funding opportunities
Further info
course descriptions
course coordinators

30. Essay writing – help is at hand
Resources section of medical humanities website
‘The Good Writing Guide’ on the University website, this will help with grammar, punctuation and much else.
Referencing is a matter for individual course co-ordinators so be guided by that although we do favour Vancouver style

31. How do you eat yours?

32. Alternative Projects ME33A1 (15) and ME33A2 (30)
Your idea – research it!
Try to find supervisor
Discuss with Dr Bodkin
Submit Proposal by - 2nd June
Approval meeting in June
Credits 15 or 30
Appropriate supervisor
Confirm assessment
If approved then in August MUST put alternative project as 1st choice

33. Projects in recent years
Expedition and Remote Medicine: The ethics, history and social dynamics involved.
Artistic exploration of obstetric complications
The exploration of attitudes to mental health and ill health and how this is portrayed through literature.
Food and Nutrition: contributory factors to health and food as medicine.
Placement of evidence and social media
Mountain Rescue teams in Highland and their influence on the uptake of outdoor activities
The application of music in a therapeutic environment.
Parkinson’s Disease: singing as therapy.
Designing an exhibit on the practice and education of obstetrics.
The study of Japanese language and medicine.
Tackling antimicrobial resistance in the developing world

34. Ruth Cole Kathleen Smith Bethany Hastings
NHS from cradle to grave
Kathleen Smith
The Art of Anatomy
Bethany Hastings
Artistic Exploration of Obstetric Complications

35. History of Highland Hospitals Medical Student Project
Study an aspect of healthcare in the highlands,
The student(s) will receive
How to use Highland archive centre and online searches
Free accommodation at Raigmore hospital (Scottish students).
Guidance on presentation and academic writing.
Opportunity to attend some clinical sessions.
The students will be expected to produce
Project report in the format of a journal article (3500words)
Oral Poster presentation
Professor Steve Leslie or Highland Medical Education Centre

36. Other project opportunities
Working with Charlies House a local charity which engages in activities and projects to support children with complex disabilities and life limiting conditions.
Contact Sorcha Hume
Researching the first Neurosurgeon in Aberdeen –
Sir James Learmonth.
Contact Mr Peter Bodkin

37. Featured courses

38. Creative Writing ME33CW (30)
Verbal Remedies
Creative Writing by Medical students
Creative Writing ME33CW (30)
27th May 5pm
WORD
Course Co-ordinator
Helen Lynch
Student - Abbie McAlinden

39. Economics and Medicine (15)
Course Co-ordinator
Dwayne Boyers
Contact

40. Spirituality, Health and Healing ME33DR (30)
Courseteam: Prof. John Swinton and
Dr. Léon van Ommen (course-coordinator)
Contact:

41. How do we look at the world, at health and healing
How do we look at the world, at health and healing? What has spirituality to do with this?
What does it mean to be human?

42. Contact: leon.vanommen@abdn.ac.uk
Practically:
Interdisciplinary
Lectures on:
Spirituality and chaplaincy
Healing and disability
Spirituality and mental health
Spirituality and dementia
Spirituality, death and dying
Essay 6,000 words, 100%
Extra intromeeting
Contact:

43. Health Studies in Education ME33HS (30)
Course Co-ordinators
Jackie Heaton
Fiona Marshall
Students - Ellie Murray and David Browne

44. Health Studies in Education ME33HS
A six week module in three parts:-
Two weeks of Induction and Planning – including a 2 day school orientation visit, workshops on learning and teaching, student pairs plan and develop the lessons agreed with the placement school.
Two week Placement – pairs of students providing “curriculum enrichment with a medical dimension” in a range of subjects. In 10 partner schools in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray and Highland.
Two weeks for consolidation and preparation of assessments:– a presentation on the experiences in school, a personal evaluation of a selected lesson and a short piece of reflective writing.

45. History of Medicine ME33HM
Course Co-ordinator
Dr Ben Marsden
Student – Dougal MacEwan

46. History of Medicine; Previous topics
How Paracelsian alchemy led to modern medicine.
Dr James Lind and his treatise on scurvy.
John Hunter’s scientific approach to surgery.
The development of 19th century anaesthesia
How Florence Nightingale introduced the modern profession of nursing.
Sir Patrick Manson: Father of Tropical Medicine or Father of Western Medicine in the Far-East?
The Influenza Pandemic of
A history of the development of skin grafting instruments.
Sardinian empirical midwives in the mid-20th century: dangerous quacks or professionals?
The struggle to manufacture penicillin.
Winston Churchill: his wartime health battles.
Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe: pioneer in plastic surgery and rehabilitation.
The Eradication of Polio: why Sabin's became the vaccine of choice. 
Lobotomy: An effective treatment or an easy way out in the management of mentally ill patients in the mid-20th Century?
The influence of RD Laing on twentieth-century Schizophrenia treatment.
A comparison of the typhoid outbreaks of Aberdeen in 1912 and 1964.
The Ebola Outbreak of 2014: An expected event.

47. John Blair Trust http://www.bshm.org.uk/JohnBlairTrust.htm
promote the study of History of Medicine by undergraduate students of medicine and allied sciences.
Small grants of up to £150, to cover travel, photocopying & other expenses associated with carrying out studies in the History of Medicine.
This is a small trust with limited resources

48. PK presentation
Dougal MacEwan A study of the dissemination of new blood transfusion techniques in the First World War

49. Course Co-ordinator Dr Shahida Shahana Contact: s.shahana@abdn.ac.uk
Human Anatomy: Dissection With Historical, Cultural and Social Dimensions ME33HA(30)
Course Co-ordinator
Dr Shahida Shahana
Contact:

50. Fine art and Medicine ME33FA
Course Co-ordinator
Dr Leeanne Bodkin
Images reproduced with permission of Emily Court, Kirsty Stewart,, Abby Tan, Emma Whitely, Neena Suchdev and Amy Hu

51. NEW for 17-18
ME33SW Beginners Swedish ME33CS Cinema and Science ME33?? The Hospital; Health, wellbeing and the built environment ME33PM Philosophy and Medicine

52. Cinema and Science ME33CS (30)
Course Co-ordinator
Dr Silvia Casini

53. Philosophy of Medicine ME33PM (30)
Course Co-ordinator
Dr Ulrich Stegmann

54. The Hospital; Health, wellbeing and the built environment ME33?? (30)
Course Co-ordinator
Lindsey Vyse

55. Lady Jameson Fellowship Prize
PRIZES
Each medical humanities course awards a prize to the student with the highest A grade on CGS
These are for either £25 or £50 dependant on credits
Overall prize
Lady Jameson Fellowship Prize
Awarded to the student or students with the best performance in terms of effort, initiative or results, in the Medical Humanities component of the MBChB programme. Chosen from eligible students by our External Examiner

56. Undergraduate Essay Prize Three £100 prizes for the best unpublished original research essays in the social history of medicine, by medical, healthcare and allied science students. Roy Porter Student Essay Prize £500 prize will be awarded to the best original, unpublished essay in the social history of medicine The competition is open to undergraduate and post-graduate students in full or part-time education. The next SSHM Biennial Conference will take place at the University of Liverpool from July 2018

57. Norah Schuster History of Medicine Essay Prize
£100 book token and a year's membership of the RSM.
This prize will be awarded for the best essay or essays submitted on any subject related to the history of medicine. Essays should be between 3, ,000 words. A 500-word summary should also be submitted along with the full essay. This should not merely be an abstract: it should outline not only the topic under discussion, the aims and principal conclusions of your research, but also the sources you have consulted.
full list of prizes
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58. Association of Medical Humanities
Annual Conference Now includes Student conference
Opportunity for papers/posters etc…
Funding available
Contact Dr Bodkin if you are interested
Previous student abstracts accepted
The Stephoscope: Immutable Paradigm or Time-Expired technology - Agena Agenor
'Compassion - A Human Response to Suffering.'
– Ellie Harlow

59. The Med-Chi Heritage Evening
ABERDEEN
MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL
SOCIETY
Founded 1789
Fellowship │ Education │ Heritage
Thursday 18th May pm to 9.30pm
Suttie Lecture Theatre
“The Art of Medicine”
Tutors will attend to comment on the work and the benefits of this part of the curriculum.
Wider discussion on relevance to attitudes and decisions in clinical practice.
Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society
Suttie Lecture Theatre, Foresterhill, 7pm
The Café in the Suttie will remain open until 7pm for purchase of refreshments
Undergraduates will present their work on History of Medicine, Art and Creative Writing.
Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Medical School, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD
Tel: – Ext (76) Web:
FOR MED-CHI EVENING LECTURES PARKING IS AVAILABLE IN FRONT OF THE POLWARTH BUILDING.
ENTRY FROM CORNHILL ROAD BETWEEN 6 & 7PM. THE EXIT BARRIER WILL RAISE AUTOMATICALLY ON LEAVING
KEN MCHARDY – HONORARY SECRETARY

60. New Scottish Collaboration
Opportunities for student engagement with editing – summer student project
Contact Dr Bodkin if you are interested

61. Aberdeen Medical Humanities
Student society
Film and book group
Drawing to support learning

62. and finally … intercalated degree in medical humanities
Contact:
Dr Leeanne Bodkin
Dr Catherine Jones

63. Alternative Projects
Research it!
Try to find supervisor
Discuss with Dr Bodkin first
Submit Proposal by – 2nd June
If approved then in course selection;
MUST put alternative project as 1st choice
MUST give alternatives

64. EXPLORE THE OPTIONS OPEN AUGUST ONLY 2 WEEKS !!!
MUST take 30 credits
Three choices
Through ‘my curriculum’
Language on one list only
OPEN AUGUST ONLY 2 WEEKS !!!
DON’T FORGET TO SUBMIT!