Gender, Knowledge, Body and Power: Explore Medical Students’ Caring Education in a Teaching Clinic

In the past the medical community, "care" has been an important core value in the nursing profession, also resulting in the area of gender-based segmentation and character. The current reform of medical education, care and explicit education much attention, not only ranked as one of the six core competencies, Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) and teaching outpatient care will also be incorporated into the training and assessment of medical students’ project. However, the assessment in the teaching clinic, physician better able to "medical history" and "physical examination" of the correctness of a more precise guidance, but for the guidance of caring, ethics and gender issues obvious imbalance also shows teaching clinic assessment and teaching need to be improved. Teaching clinics as "teaching" and complex "real medical situation" by the physician to control the audience, their needs at the same time among the "healer" and "teacher's" role transformation, it is inevitable neglect of patients; the patient's body also in between "the patient's body" and "show the prevalence of body" staggered, teachers and students to accept medical treatment, physical examination and disease discussion. It also shows the teaching clinic is full of power, knowledge construction and body field of gender politics. This study aims to review the teaching outpatient care education, the first year of study, field observations and interviews, from teaching clinic system, operation and assessment, to understand its power and construction of gender and field of medical relevance, and the impact of the doctor-patient relationship; and to explore male and female medical students in the teaching clinic of performance; also through participating patient experience teaching strategies as suggestions for improvement. Finally, according to a previous study, prepare a combination of teaching outpatient care assessment scale, in order to practice the medical humanities.

Project ID:PF10508-0189
External Project ID:MOST105-2629-S182-001