Table 2 Final model of CA sessions
Title | Cultural anthropology session | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Educational format | Web-based interactive lecture | ||
Learning objectives | 1) To understand medical education practice in its social and cultural contexts 2) To develop medical education activities suitable for each context | ||
Participants | A cultural anthropologist as a lecturer | ||
A medical educator as a mediator | |||
Six physicians as learners; three of which are presenters | |||
Time schedule (Total 2 h) | 5 min | Introduction | |
10 min | Presentation of one learner | → Repeat this cycle for three learners | |
20 min | Discussion | ||
15 min | Mini lecture on cultural anthropology | ||
10 min | Q & A | ||
Pre-session assignment | The presenters were required to prepare presentation slides describing an instance of taking an educational practice, method, theory, concept, model, or activity that they had learned in one context and applying it in another. | ||
Post-session assignment | After the session, participants were required to submit a short reflective essay on the session, quoting one or more of the assigned books. | ||
Assigned books | 1) | Jordan, B. and Davis-Floyd, R. (1993) Birth in four cultures: A crosscultural investigation of childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States. 4th Edition. Illinois: Waveland press. | |
2) | Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | ||
3) | Lave, J. (1988) Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | ||