Medical Humanities Summer School 2019

Sunday 14 July

Arrival

Monday 15 July

Day 1: Communication; Ethics

09:15-10:15:
Welcome remarks

10:15-10:45:
Session 1: Observation

10:45-11:15:
Break

11:15-13:00:
Session 2: Language

13:00-14:00:
Lunch

14:00-15:00:
Session 3: Ethics

15:00-15:30:
Session 4: Decision-making

15:30-16:00:
Break

16:00-17:30:
Session 5: Talking to patients

19:00-20:00:
Dinner

Tuesday 16 July

Day 2: Communication (continued) and Organisation(s)

09:15-10:15:
Session 6: Historicising pain

10:15-11:00:
Session 7: Doctors and Stories

11:00-11:30:
Break

11:30-12:30:
Session 8: Body Parts

12:30-13:10:
Session 9: Compassion

13:10-14:00:
Lunch

14:00-15:30:
Session 10: Body space and body language

15:30-16:00:
Break

16:00-17:00:
Session 11: Professor Henry Marsh: The Operating is Easy. Everything else is Difficult.

17:00-17:45:
Session 12: Children and Illness

17:45-19:00:
Session 13: Embodied Cognition

19:15-20:15:
Dinner

Wednesday 17 July

Day 3:
Afflictions and (Self)-care

09:15-11:00:
Session 14: Infection

11:00-11:30:
Break

11:30-12:15:
Addictions and treatments

12:15-13:00:
Tour of the Radcliffe Observatory and Gardens

13:00-14:00:
Lunch

14:00-15:20:
Session 17: Care

15:20-15:40:
Break

15:45-17:00:
Session 18: Self-care. A choice of three practical sessions (sign up for one):
1) Mindfulness
2) Yoga
3) Personal training

19:00-20:00:
Dinner

Thursday 18 July

Day 4:
Managing healthcare and ageing populations

09:15-10:15:
Session 19: Management

10:15-11:00:
Session 20: Illness and Old Age

11:00-11:30:
Break

11:30-13:00:
Session 21:Management

13:00-13:45:
Lunch

13:45-14:15:
Transit to Magdalen College (pedestrian escort)

14:15-15:45:
Session 22: Early modern medical books in Magdalen College's Old Library

15:45-16:15:
Break

16:15-17:00:
Session 23: The doctor as anti-hero

17:00-17:30:
Tour of Magdalen College

19:00-20:00:
Dinner

20:30-21:15:
Special evening session for school students on how to write a personal statement for UCAS

Friday 19 July

Day 5:
(Un)consciousness, Economics, and Identities

09:15-10:15:
Session 24: Sleep

10:15-11:00:
Session 25: Consciousness

11:00-11:30:
Break

11:30-12:15:
Session 26: Economics

12:15-13:00:
Session 2: Space and Time

13:00-14:00:
Lunch

14:00-15:00:
Session 28: Disability

15:00-15:45:
Session 29: Aesthetics

15:45-16:15:
Break

16:15-17:30:
Session 30: The role of the doctor

17:30-17:45:
Round-up, certificates and questionnaires

19:00:
Farewell banquet at Green Templeton

Saturday 20 July

Departure