Medical education and creative writing: Poetry and how it can assist trainees in developing psychiatric formulation skills.

Autor: Kumar V; Older Persons Mental Health Service, Kirwan Health Campus, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists [Australas Psychiatry] 2024 Aug; Vol. 32 (4), pp. 365-369. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 10.
DOI: 10.1177/10398562241246638
Abstrakt: Objective: To reflect on the importance of teaching formulation skills in psychiatry training and explore how creative writing, particularly writing poetry, can help achieve this goal.
Conclusions: It is vital that formulation skills are embedded throughout psychiatry training. Formulations have an artistic element, and writing poetry can help foster a capacity for curiosity that can assist trainees in developing these skills.
Competing Interests: DisclosureThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Databáze: MEDLINE