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Fig. 4 | BMC Medical Education

Fig. 4

From: Exploring the value of qualitative research films in clinical education

Fig. 4

Conceptual model. This illustrates our conceptual model developed from the thematic findings. Central to that model is finding a balance between hiding or revealing pain and focusing on the physical body or the person. Hiding their pain, combined with focusing on the physical body can mean that the clinician does not see the person beneath their outward performance. Our findings demonstrate factors that might underpin clinicians decision to focus on the physical body or the person (professional vulnerability/safety/quite despair/detached empathy) and patients decisions to reveal or hide pain (trust/distrust, credibility/stigma). We illustrate how clinicians struggle to balance time constraints with a sense that it is necessary to invest more time to be clinically effective. Time constraints tend to favour a mind-body dualism and a focus on ‘fixing’ the body, whereas investing in time tends to supports an embodied approach to the clinical encounter with a focus on healing

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