Medical Improvisation - Using Improvisation to Develop Communication and Language Skills

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2020-2021

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 0 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 12 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OXF-N79-o-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 3 – max. 15

Topic

The aim of the course is to prepare students to acquire skills and competences necessary in their everyday communication as physicians, improving their communication skills by the use of medical improvisation and also to improve their English for medical purposes. Medical Improv is the practice of improvisational theater philosophy and techniques applied to the unique challenges and environment of healthcare. It helps students to think out of the box while staying in the moment to turn them into sharper listeners, better collaborators and more empathic people. it forces them to think on their feet, which is important as physicians need to prepare for the unpredictable. It helps students to discover interpersonal strengths and shortcomings through the power of improvisation while they practice their verbal skills in English at the same time.

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

  • 1. What is Applied Improv, what is Medical Improv and why we need it, how this approach is different
  • 2. Communication and behavior according to the core principles of improvisation
  • 3. Core principles of medical improv, emotional intelligence and communication as the underlying components of behavior ( and how they affect patient safety, patient experience and workforce health)
  • 4. Syncing with each other ( physical and verbal).-effective communication
  • 5. Observation and active listening skills
  • 6. What's the relationship? The importance of collaborative behavior
  • 7. Help your partner, the importance of team work, partnership with flexibility
  • 8. Accept this! recognizing emotional tones in others, developing the ability to manage one's own emotions
  • 9. Reading minds, empathy, theory of mind in healthcare situations
  • 10. Sharing responsibility, avoiding power struggle, assertiveness, making mistakes
  • 11. Exercises, practice
  • 12. Exercises, practice, discussion

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

Impro: Improvisation and the theatre, by Keith johnstone
Medical Improv: Learning Experiences that promote Safe Care, patient satisfaction and rewarding careers, youtube by Beth Boynton, Stephanie Frederick and Judy White
Marianne Schmid Mast and Gaetan Cousin: The Role of nonverbal communication in Medical interactions: Empirical results, theoretical biases, and methodological issues, The Oxford Handbook of Health Communication, Behaviour Change and treatment adherence (2013) edited by Leslie R. Martin and M. Robin DiMatteo

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Maximum of 15 % absence allowed

Mid-term exams

Create your own role play / script based on what you have learned

Making up for missed classes

Specified by the course leader on a case-by-case basis

Exam topics/questions

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Eklicsné Dr. Lepenye Katalin
  • Szántóné Dr. Csongor Alexandra