School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK.
Perspect Med Educ. 2021 Dec;10(6):352-355. doi: 10.1007/s40037-021-00691-8. Epub 2021 Nov 4.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made its impact across the globe with great voracity. New routines have displaced older more established ones with ruthless efficiency-no more so than in healthcare. In meeting these challenges, many healthcare workers have had to prepare for and enact many new ways of working. Regardless of their speciality or stage of training, health professions educators (HPEs) have helped train our healthcare workforce in developing new skills with great tempo. Throughout all of these efforts one constant has guided our endeavours-the humane connection with those that provide and those that seek healthcare.However, with COVID-19 we have had to distance ourselves from our patients, and colleagues, and clad ourselves in various items of personal protection equipment (PPE). The protective barrier also acts as a barrier to personal interaction and therefore presents challenges in how we connect with each other on a humane level. Few disciplines have engaged with the complexities of verbal and gestural communication as thoroughly and consistently as the dramatic arts. Actors in Ancient Greece would perform wearing masks and used oratory as well as gestural communication to enrapture the audience.Drawing upon the dramatic arts, we aim to explore the relationship between face and mask and thereby provide reflective insights for HPEs to help guide healthcare workers in their communication from behind the face mask.
COVID-19 疫情在全球范围内肆虐，对各行各业都产生了巨大的影响。新的惯例无情地取代了旧的、更成熟的惯例，尤其是在医疗保健领域。在应对这些挑战时，许多医疗工作者不得不为许多新的工作方式做准备并付诸实施。无论他们的专业或培训阶段如何，健康职业教育者（HPE）都以极大的热情帮助培训我们的医疗保健工作者发展新技能。在所有这些努力中，有一个不变的因素一直指导着我们的努力，那就是与提供和寻求医疗保健的人之间的人道联系。然而，由于 COVID-19，我们不得不与患者和同事保持距离，穿上各种个人防护设备（PPE）。防护屏障也阻碍了人与人之间的互动，因此在我们如何在人道层面上相互联系方面带来了挑战。很少有学科像戏剧艺术那样全面和一致地研究言语和手势交流的复杂性。古希腊的演员会戴着面具表演，他们使用演讲和手势交流来吸引观众。借鉴戏剧艺术，我们旨在探索面部和面具之间的关系，从而为 HPE 提供反思性见解，帮助指导医疗保健工作者在戴口罩后的沟通。
