Cinemeducation
Use of film in medical education
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Cinemeducation is the use of film in medical education. It was originally coined by Matthew Alexander, Hall, and Pettice in the journal Family Medicine in 1994[1] and later used by Matthew Alexander, Anna Pavlov, and Patricia Lenahan in their text of the same title.[2] Cinemeducation emphasises the psychosocial aspects of medicine.[3] It has been used in teaching family systems theory,[4] end-of-life care,[5] medical professionalism and medical ethics,[6] and in psychiatry[7][8] and mental health services.[9]
See also
- Film studies, an academic discipline dealing with theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films
- Medical humanities, an interdisciplinary field of medicine which includes the humanities, social sciences and arts
