Teaching compassion for social accountability_ A parallaxic investigation.pdf (2.15 MB)
Teaching compassion for social accountability: A parallaxic investigation
journal contribution
posted on 2023-04-24, 00:35 authored by Hoi F Cheu, Pauline Sameshima, Roger Strasser, Amy R Clithero-Eridon, Brian Ross, Erin Cameron, Robyn PrestonRobyn Preston, Jill Allison, Connie HuBackground: In an arts integrated interdisciplinary study set to investigate ways to improve social
accountability (SA) in medical education, our research team has established a renewed understanding
of compassion in the current SA movement.
Aim: This paper explores the co-evolution of compassion and SA.
Methods: The study used an arts integrated approach to investigate people’s perceptions of SA in
four medical schools across Australia, Canada, and the USA. Each school engaged approximately
25 participants who partook in workshops and in-depth interviews.
Results: We began with a study of SA and the topic of compassion emerged out of our qualitative
data and biweekly meetings within the research team. Content analysis of the data and pedagogical
discussion brought us to realize the importance of compassion in the practice of SA.
Conclusions: The cultivation of compassion needs to play a significant role in a socially accountable
medical educational system. Medical schools as educational institutions may operate themselves
with compassion as a driving force in engaging partnership with students and communities.
Social accountability without compassion is not SA; compassion humanizes institutional policy by
engaging sympathy and care.
Funding
Category 2 - Other Public Sector Grants Category
History
Volume
45Issue
4Start Page
404End Page
411Number of Pages
8eISSN
1466-187XISSN
0142-159XPublisher
Informa UK LimitedPublisher License
CC BY-NC-NDPublisher DOI
Additional Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0Language
enPeer Reviewed
- Yes
Open Access
- Yes
External Author Affiliations
Laurentian University, Canada; Lakehead University, Canada; Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Canada; University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand; University of New Mexico, USA; Memorial University of Newfoundland, CanadaEra Eligible
- Yes