Ethics

Category: - Master Classes

Date: July 4th 2013 12:30pm until 5:00pm

Location: Severn Deanery BS16 1GW

Master Classes for Senior Educators

Overview

An academic series of master classes mainly held at Deanery House on topical and emerging areas of medical education for the Deanery faculty. They will be open to the Deanery Educational Team and Educators in Schools and Trusts. Global and nationally important speakers will be invited.

Aim

Faculty development for senior educators in the Severn Deanery to assist in creating a consistent understanding about current developments and issues affecting medical education.

Reasons for offering the Master Class:

Although the experience of illness is near-universal, many aspects of it are not well-understood by doctors. What is the relationship between health (or its absence) and wellbeing? Is it possible to be (chronically, seriously) ill and still flourish?   What aspects of the ill person's life are most impacted by illness? What happens to the ill person's social world? Self-  understanding? This master class will use tools and insights from philosophy, as well as health psychology and happiness   studies, to illuminate the core features of the experience of illness and explore what medics can do to alleviate it.

Speakers details:

Dr Havi Carel is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol and teaches at the Bristol Medical School. She is the author of Illness (2008, shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize), and of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger (2006). She is currently a British Academy Fellow, and is writing a monograph on the phenomenology of illness for Oxford University Press. She previously held a Leverhulme Fellowship and an AHRC grant. Havi has published in the Lancet, BMJ, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.

Aim of this master class:

To provide an in-depth analysis of the experience of illness, using the tools of philosophy.

Objectives: by the end of the master class participants will be able to:

• Use fundamental philosophical concepts to describe the experience of illness
• Have a better understanding of illness as transforming the ill person's life
• Appreciate the diversity and importance of illness experiences
• Connect the session's themes to the recent focus on 'patient experience'
• And 'patient satisfaction'
• Think of concrete ways to incorporate the session's ideas into medical teaching and training