Cloaking as a Community: Re-imagining the White Coat Ceremony With a Medical School Learning Community

Autor: Robert Tamai, Neel Koyawala, Robert B. Shochet, Barbara Dietrick, Debanjan Pain
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, Vol 6 (2019)
ISSN: 2382-1205
Popis: The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Learning Community–White Coat Ceremony (LC-WCC) is held each spring as a learning community (LC) event. Learning communities (LCs) connect people to learn and work across boundaries to achieve a shared goal. The LC-WCC invites first-year students to collaborate with school leaders, define the class professional values, and innovate with community members. Class-elected student leaders recruit peers to join committees to plan and lead several aspects of the ceremony, including a class-nominated speaker, a personal statements presentation, a patient inclusion presentation, a class-authored statement of values, and artistic performances. Student cloaking is performed by LC advisors in their LC small groups. A 2015 post-LC-WCC survey asking students to compare experiences of a traditional Stethoscope Ceremony (SC) with the LC-WCC found that the latter significantly increased students’ sense of accomplishment (38% vs 68%, P
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