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Physician, Know Thyself: Using Digital Storytelling to Promote Reflection in Medical Education

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Digital Storytelling in Higher Education

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Hardy highlights the use of digital storytelling in medical education, describing a pilot project in which third-year medical students reflected on clinical practice placements through the creation of digital stories. The chapter reveals the students’ insights into the relationship between who they are, who they will become and the kind of care they will provide. Hardy also shows readers how students incorporated Bruner’s “science of the concrete” and “science of the imagination” while simultaneously “transforming and extending their knowledge.” The degree to which students were able to integrate clinical knowledge with the ability to empathise with patients and contemplate meeting challenges in new and creative ways is apparent in their stories, while implications for further practice are clearly articulated in their reflective statements about the process.

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    Pip Hardy

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  1. Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway

    Grete Jamissen

  2. Pilgrim Projects, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Pip Hardy

  3. Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway

    Yngve Nordkvelle

  4. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Heather Pleasants

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Hardy, P. (2017). Physician, Know Thyself: Using Digital Storytelling to Promote Reflection in Medical Education. In: Jamissen, G., Hardy, P., Nordkvelle, Y., Pleasants, H. (eds) Digital Storytelling in Higher Education. Digital Education and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51058-3_4

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