Lock Elizabeth
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Acad Med. 2003 Dec;78(12):1229-34. doi: 10.1097/00001888-200312000-00006.
There is a current need to improve health care delivery to deaf and hearing-impaired persons. The author designed an educational workshop for medical students and others as an initial step to address this need. The workshop was offered electively during 1997 and 1998 to first-year and second-year medical students at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. The workshop involved a broad, multidisciplinary scope, may have been the first of its kind in Canada, and is still one of the few documented ways to approach medical education about deafness and hearing impairments. Attendees explored general information on hearing impairments, communication between the hearing-impaired patient and his or her physician, and multicultural, technological, and ethical aspects of caring for hearing-impaired patients. There was an initial questionnaire, group exercises, lectures, student interviews of volunteer deaf "patients," discussions, and a "hands-on" materials display. The workshop was a low-cost and easily reproducible method of educating medical students about hearing impairments. If found to be educationally effective through future research, this type of workshop may foster better care to deaf and hearing-impaired persons by inclusion into medical school and continuing education curricula.
当前需要改善为聋人和听力受损者提供的医疗服务。作者为医学生及其他人员设计了一个教育工作坊，作为满足这一需求的初步举措。该工作坊在1997年和1998年作为选修课提供给加拿大新斯科舍省达尔豪斯大学的一年级和二年级医学生。这个工作坊涉及广泛的多学科领域，可能是加拿大首个此类工作坊，并且至今仍是为数不多的有文献记载的针对聋症和听力障碍进行医学教育的方式之一。参与者探讨了听力障碍的一般信息、听力受损患者与其医生之间的沟通，以及照顾听力受损患者的多元文化、技术和伦理方面。活动包括一份初始问卷、小组练习、讲座、学生对志愿聋人“患者”的访谈、讨论以及一个“实践操作”材料展示。该工作坊是一种低成本且易于复制的对医学生进行听力障碍教育的方法。如果通过未来的研究发现其在教育方面有效，这种类型的工作坊可能通过纳入医学院校和继续教育课程，促进对聋人和听力受损者更好的护理。
