Medical Improvisation - Using Improvisation to Develop Communication and Language Skills

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

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

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

Seminars

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

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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

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Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Eklicsné Lepenye Katalin
• Fekete Judit Diána
• Kanizsai Péter László
• Szántóné Csongor Alexandra