Digital Story Facilitates Reflective Process Among Future Physicians

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
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"The purpose of incorporating digital storytelling in medical education at Georgetown University (Washington DC) is to facilitate a reflective process among future physicians. This process is based on active listening, personal commitment and building physician-patient trust which is essential in providing quality care. Through eliciting stories that relate to personal health, patients are engaged as educators who contribute to the students comprehensive understanding of interrelated determinants of health. By promoting patients' participation in their own health affairs, physicians are ultimately able to provide better and more lasting care."
Kim Bullock, MD


Kim Bullock, MD is a family medicine and emergency room physician as well as Community Health Division Director and Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Centre. She has infused social learning theory and reflective patient and community centred practice into her classroom and clinical teaching. Dr. Bullock also serves as Director of The Community Health Division and Assistant Director of Service Learning where she has strengthened community partnerships within pre-clinical medical education and used digital stories to expand student participation and engagement in diverse local communities.

Look for commentary by Kim Bullock in October issue The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice IJCAIP.