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Developed by four medical schools, the scale found that participants in a six-hour enhanced medical improv course scored significantly higher than those with no improv training. “The arts and humanities have been shown to have effects on provider well-being and on diagnostic, communication, teamwork, and leadership skills,” notes Howley.
Nov 3, 2023 · Medical improvisation (improv) applies theater principles and techniques to improve communication and teamwork with health professionals (HP). Improv curricula have increased over time, but little is known about best practices in curricula development, implementation, and assessment. We sought to complete a state-of-the-art review of medical improv curricula to teach HP learners communication ...
- Improv Magic
- Yes, and…
- Reflections in The Mirror
- Take A Bow
- Artist at Work
Picture a newly minted academic faculty, profoundly anxious to give a resident teaching conference. He practices in the empty conference room the night before. When teaching the next day, his eye contact is primarily with the “eye” of the slide projector. A colleague offers penetratingly accurate feedback—his awkwardness and anxiety definitely show...
The fundamental principle of improv, “Yes, and ...,” has been a challenge for me to embrace. It’s not in my nature to simply say “Yes” whenever a suggestion is made; rather, my first instinct is to logically think through everything and find potential flaws. Improv invited me to change the way I approach my interactions with others. In improv theat...
“Next, we’ll do an exercise in pairs called Mirror,” says the improv instructor leading our class. I turn and face the person to my right. She looks at me seriously. The instructor says, “Decide who will lead and who will follow. For one minute, followers will mirror the movements of the leaders. Go!” We begin without words. My partner leads and I ...
My program director was giving me feedback. As he speaks my shoulders curl inward like I’m ready for a fight; I duck my head, my brain swirls with excuses; under the desk, I clench my fists. I am ready to deny, deflect, or flee—anything to avoid confronting my mistake. Flaws are not tolerated in medicine. Though we appropriately strive for the high...
I was meeting with Mary’s daughter, Laura. With her progressive and worsening dementia, Mary was caught in an endless misery of recurrent hospital admissions due to pneumonia, UTI, heart failure, and many other ailments. Providing aggressive medical care seemed futile at best. After initial courtesies, we sat down. I expressed my concerns in plain,...
- Ankit Mehta, Belinda Fu, Erica Chou, Suzanne Mitchell, David Fessell
- 2021
Jun 6, 2023 · Prior medical improv curricula have, to our knowledge, had a general patient-centered approach but have not explicitly addressed racism, structural inequities, privilege, and power. 23 Therefore, we piloted a 90-minute virtual improv workshop with first-year medical students designed to advance health equity. Our primary goals were to develop trainees’ listening skills, communication ...
- 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005183
- 2023/06/06
Her novel communications curriculum is now taught in medical schools and other health care training settings across the country, it was featured in the AAMC’s 2020 publication “The Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education,” and Professor Watson has presented keynote lectures, grand rounds, and workshops on medical improv for trainees and clinicians at medical ...
Nov 13, 2020 · The study, “Medical Improvisation Training for all Medical Students: 3-Year Experience,” was published in Medical Science Educator. Researchers examined nearly 500 entering third-year students at University of Michigan Medical School between 2015 and 2017 who took required improvisational training workshops.
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What has become known as medical improv applies techniques of theater improvisation to health professions education and practice. This article shares how an improv exercise called Status Cards prompts participants to recognize their responses to status and how this awareness can be applied to improve their interactions in real encounters with patients, colleagues, and others in health care ...
