Cultivation of humanistic values in medical education through anatomy pedagogy and gratitude ceremony for body donors
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Cultivation of humanistic values in medical education through anatomy pedagogy and gratitude ceremony for body donors Kaihua Guo1†, Tao Luo1†, Li-Hua Zhou1,2*, Dazheng Xu1, Guangming Zhong1, Huaqiao Wang1, Jie Xu1 and Guoliang Chu1*
Abstract Background: One of the most important objectives of modern medical education is to empower medical students to become humanistic clinicians. Human anatomy plays a crucial role in this mission by using cadavers to cause reflections on death, dying, illness, and the role of medical practitioners in humanistic care. The objective of this study was to introduce, describe, and evaluate the impact of a ceremony in honor of the body donors on ethical and humanistic attitudes of medical students. Methods: We used a phenomenological research approach to explore and understand the lived experiences of the anatomy teachers as they teach anatomy in the context of humanism and ethics. A separate survey of third-year medical students was carried out to understand their perceptions of changes in themselves, respect for donors and donor families, and their relationship with patients. Data were collected in two phases: a desktop review of teaching materials followed by in-depth interviews of the main anatomy teachers followed by a self-administered, 5-item Likert scaled questionnaire given to students. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected] † Kaihua Guo and Tao Luo contributed equally to this work. 1 Department of Anatomy, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, People’s Republic of China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
Guo et al. BMC Medical Education
(2020) 20:440
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Results: In the present article, we describe the rituals conducted in honor of body donors at our School of Medicine. We also describe the lived experiences of anato
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