In Section 2, The Arts in Medicine and Practitioner Self Care, we examine some of the daily challenges of working in medicine and the human realities of illness, disease, aging and death and how the arts can offer healthy opportunities for practitioners to deal with stressful situations while addressing their own self care needs.
Alim Nagji MD, who is also an actor, producer and writer, stresses that teaching people to understand their patients stories must begin early in their training before the erosion of empathy. Nagji believes using theatre in medical education for “performative reflection” can help students delve into the character’s back stories drawing parallels between those experiences and their own.
Alim Nagji,MD,BHsc, has been an avid actor, producer and writer for several years and founded his own production company, BackRow Production. In 2010,as a second year medical student at University of Alberta, he conceived and helped to pilot a six-session,theatre-based special studies module directed to first-year students,the success of which led to the inclusion of an ongoing, formal elective option in the undergraduate medical program.His passion for teaching is fuelled by his strong desire
to impart enchanced communication skills to medical students, recognizing the integral role they play in anchoring the pateint-physician relationship.He is currently a resident in family medicine and hopes to integrate his scholarly interest in the medical humanities and his international work experience in his future practice.
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