Medical Humanities Summer School 2021

Monday 12 July

Day 1: On Observation, interpretation, communication

12:30 to 13:00
Session 1: Preliminary tutorials

14:00 to 15:30 (90-minute session in one continuous unit as follows)
Session 2: Welcome: meet the team + icebreaking (14:00 to 14:30)
‘What is Medical Humanities?’; rationale of summer school; How to Diagnose Anything (Not Just Illness) (14:30 to 15:30)

15:30 to 16:00: Long refreshment break

16:00 to 16:45
Session 3: Roundtable on language, power, communication.

16:45 to 17:00: Short refreshment break

17:00 to 18:00
Session 4 Virginia Woolf and the Language of Pain; Workshop on doctor-patient interaction
 

Tuesday 13 July

Day 2: Professionalism

12:30 to 13:00
Session 1: Tutorial Sessions

13:00 to 14:00
Lunch

14:00 to 14:45
Session 2: Self-awareness and professionalism: a framework for medicine

14:45 to 15:15
Refreshment break

15:15 to 16:00
Session 3: The Professions through different lenses

16:00 to 16:30
Refreshment break

16:30 to 17:15
Session 4: ‘Laws’ for life as a medical professional

Wednesday 14 July

Day 3: Values

12:30 to 13:00
Session 1: Tutorial Sessions

13:00 to 14:00
Lunch

14:00 to 15:00
Session 2: Communicating health

15:00 to 15:30: Long refreshment break

15:30 to 16:15
Session 3: Values-based practice

16:15 to 16:30
Refreshment break

16:30 to 17:00
Session 4: Black swans and surgery

17:00 to 17:15
Short refreshment break

17:15 to 18:00
Session 5: Does healthcare need managing?

Thursday 15 July

Day 4: Ethical issues

12:30 to 13:00
Session 1: Tutorial Sessions:

13:00 to 14:00
Lunch

14:00 to 15:00
Session 2:Transplantation (14:00 to 14:30)
The Tuskegee experiment (14:30 to 15:00)

15:00 to 15:30
Refreshment break

15:30 to 16:30
Session 3: Decolonising Medical Humanities

16:30 to 17:00
Refreshment break

17:00 to 18:00
Session 4 ‘Can we make decisions when we’re desperate?’ (17:00 to 17:30)
The Use of Force (17:30 to 18:00)

Friday 16 July

Day 5: The global

12:30 to 13:00
Session 1: Tutorial Sessions:

13:00 to 14:00
Lunch

14:00 to 15:00
Session 2: The moral machine experiment

15:00 to 15:30
Refreshment break

15:30 to 16:30
Session 3: What is happiness or wellbeing? - constructing a survey questionnaire

16:30 to 17:00
Refreshment break

17:00 to 18:00
Session 4: Narrative Medicine: what does telling stories do for health?

18:00 to 18:10
Short break

18:10 to 18:30
Session 5: Wrapping up: closing remarks, awards, certificates, feedback