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#08 Care as the Spirit of Medical Education


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We discuss "Because We Care: A Philosophical Investigation into the Spirit of Medical Education" by Camillo Coccia and Mario Veen. You can download it here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2022.2056744 

This is the 8th installment of the series on philosophy in medical education of Mario Veen and Anna Cianciolo, which appears in Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal -- it will also appear as a book chapter in our upcoming book Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education (Springer, forthcoming 2022).

Camillo is a medical doctor from South Africa. Currently he works as a senior house officer at Letterkenny University Hospital department of Hematology. He has a special interests in existentialist philosophy, German idealism and phenomenology. Camillo also published a book chapter with Sven Schaepkens, called "In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into kairos and reflection in medical practice and health professions education" Camillo is featured on Episode 18 - How Doctors Think of the interdisciplinary philosophy podcast Life From Plato's Cave.

Our co-host today our dr. Adina Kalet.  Adina is a General Internist and the Stephen and Shelagh Roell Endowed Chair of the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education  at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She has spent her career building the evidence base for ensuring  health professions education produces excellent health professionals committed to and capable of caring for the health of the public with character.
 

Mario Veen (@MarioVeen) is Assistant Professor Educational Research at the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Mario is action editor for the Philosophy in Medical Education series of the journal Teaching & Learning in Medicine and co-editor of the first two books about philosophy and medical education: Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education: A Journey Towards Mutual Understanding (Springer, 2022) and Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education (Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2022). He hosts the podcasts Let Me Ask You Something, and Life From Plato’s Cave.

If you have any questions about this episode, let me know! https://twitter.com/MarioVeen and https://marioveen.com/ 

Mario

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