Abstract
Around the globe, experiences of health and illness are at the forefront today more than ever. Medicine has exponentially evolved in terms of biomedicine and artificial intelligence; yet, the other vital component is the humane side of truly ‘seeing’ a patient needs to be further developed. Narrative medicine practices in a university context train medical students in how to understand patient narratives through close readings in the arts and humanities. An interpretive theoretical framework could be an essential tool in research and education to understand patient narratives more fully. The analysis of patient narratives as seen through the lens of the humanities and close reading allows interpretive methods to further parse narratives for a deeper understanding of culture, language, context, and a vast array of sociological perspectives. Illness narratives in today’s world of migrating populations give rise to contexts of intercultural exchanges within plurilingual environments. This focused discussion will revolve around medical education, narrative medicine, interpretivism, and Cope and Kalantzis’s (2020) texts, Making Sense, and Adding Sense as a grammar for multimodal meaning. These texts give a structure of how to think about the meaning of understanding in many fields, including understanding patient narratives from all aspects to develop a vertical and intense understanding of these narratives in context and in terms of the broader human experience. This creates a vertical and intense understanding of illness narratives and the human experience in any intercultural or plurilingual context. This is vital in educating future medical practitioners.
Presenters
Sakinah A. IsmaelStudent, Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership EdD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
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Presentation Type
Theme
2022 Special Focus: Intercultural Learning in Plurilingual Contexts
KEYWORDS
Narrative Medicine, Medical Education, Multimodal Meaning, Transpositional Grammar, Interpretive Framework
