David Cerdio Domínguez, María Elizabeth de Los Ríos Uriarte, Adriana Araceli Molina de la Rosa, José Marcos Félix Castro, Alejandra Fueyo Minutti, Elvia Cristina Del Campo Turcios, Rafael Maza Alamillo, Alma Cristina Cedillo Urbina, Paulina Millán Zurita, Santiago Nansen Martiarena, José Israel León Pedroza
Medical education has overshadowed the importance for interpersonal abilities in modern medicine practice. In this work, we report an innovative strategy to teach, practice, and evaluate communication and empathy abilities, based on medical theater. This approach was based on interdisciplinary effort between Medicine, Performing Arts, and Bioethics Faculty. Development and first pilot experience results are here reported. A multidisciplinary team was established with the objective to structure the methodology where simulated clinical consultations were performed: two interviews took place, each with one medical student as physician and one performing arts student as simulated patient...
June 2022: Medical Science Educator