Calendar
Friday, February 9, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Objectives
As Global Health, Social Accountability and the social determinants of health become increasingly incorporated into undergraduate curricula in medical education worldwide, the actual delivery of the curriculum, design of courses and preparation of learning and assessment materials present new challenges to Faculty members.
In keeping with the notion that difficult or challenging circumstances present rich learning environments, students learn about the health of vulnerable communities with poor access to healthcare and determine the causes of the causes of their illness. Communities include refugees, migrant workers, communities without access to clean drinking water or adequate nutrition and living without adequate hygiene and sanitation facilities.
Course materials encourage attendees to engage directly with local communities and explore in depth the social, political, economic and cultural determinants of health. Faculty and students may be placed outside their comfort zones and are supported as they learn more about their patients.
In this workshop, we discuss the real purpose and value of a case report in the modern age. Who should be writing them? What should we write about? Who will read them? Of what value are they?
We look at examples of case reports from BMJ Case Reports and focus on educational value, novel ways of presenting information and judicious ways of presenting new information in a case report.
Further focusing on Global Health Case Reports, we hope to highlight how these enable the scientific analysis of global health problems as they affect individuals, while further demonstrating how they can be powerful tools of advocacy as we campaign for more action in tackling the social determinants of health and greater access to healthcare for our patients.
Participants are invited to share their ideas of case reports they would like to write and we look at these together.
Teaching staff
Who is this programme for?
Teachers and students interested in Global Health, the humanities, social accountability and medical writing, with the intent of writing case reports or using them to enhance clinical learning.
Delivery Mode
Ideally in-person, although there is the possibility of attending the course remotely through e-learning.
Working language: English
Application
Specific access conditions:
Health Professionals and higher education students in the Health field (undergraduate, master’s or doctoral degrees).
Selection criteria:
Candidates who meet the specific access conditions will be ordered by the order of application submission.
Fees
45€
25% discount for students enrolled in MEDCIDS doctoral, masters, specialization or advanced studies courses at MEDCIDS.
Collaborators and researchers from MEDCIDS – Department of Community Medicine, Information and Decision in Health or from CINTESIS – Center for Research in Health Technologies and Services, with connection to MEDCIDS – Free.
Exemption from fees requires the authorization of the MEDCIDS Director / CINTESIS Principal Investigator, up to a limit of 7 trainees.
Vacancies
Maximum 30 | Minimum 5
Application deadline
1 February 2024
Curricular Structure
Duration
4 hours
Programmatic Contents
Intended outcomes:
1 – Participants will look again at the place of case reports within the context of levels of evidence
2 – Participants will look at the responsibility of protecting patients in their writing
3 – Participants will look at the range of case report templates available for effective medical writing
4 – Participants will look critically at global health case reports
5 – Participants will look at the responsibility of protecting patients in their writing
6 – Participants will understand the aims and principles of writing in the global health case report template
7 – Participants will look critically at the social determinants of health
8 – Participants will reflect on levels of literacy and education among their patients and the community and how this affects their health, family health and the health of communities
Teaching methodologies
Structure of workshop
The workshop is fully interactive and participants are invited to:
a) Voice their opinions and concerns. There will be opportunities to explore ideas for case reports that participants plan to write.
b) Share their experience with patients and/or in the community when they have encountered health disparities and challenges in access to quality health care.
Group discussions include working through particular challenges:
1 – Pros and cons of using case reports to learn medicine
2 – Pros and cons of writing about patients
3 – Rewards and challenges in writing, reviewing and editing
4 – Reflections of selected published global health case reports
5 – An investigation of alternative publications available for advocacy for better health care
6 – Rewards and challenges in writing, reviewing and editing global health case reports