Teaching writing in the health professions : perspectives, problems, and practices / edited by Michael J. Madson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Madson, Michael J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical sciences.

Medical writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Summary:

"This collection provides a research-based guide to instructional practices for writing in the health professions, promoting faculty development and bringing together perspectives from writing studies, technical communication, and health humanities. With employment in healthcare sectors booming, writing instruction tailored for the health professions is becoming high demand. Writing instruction is critical in the health professions because health professionals, current and aspiring, need to communicate persuasively with patients, peers, mentors, and others. Writing instruction can also help cultivate professional identity, reflective practice, empathy, critical thinking, confidence and organization, as well as research skills. This collection prepares faculty and administrators to meet this demand. It combines conceptual development of writing for the health professions as an emergent subdiscipline, and provides evidence-based practices for instructors in academic, clinical, and community settings. Teaching Writing in the Health Professions is an essential resource for instructors, scholars, and program administrators in health disciplines, professional and technical communication, health humanities, and interdisciplinary writing studies. It informs the teaching of writing in programs in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and allied health, public health, and other related professions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Contributor Biographies

Editor Biography

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing in the Health Professions: An Emergent Interdiscipline for Teachers

Approaches to Writing Instruction

Barriers to Writing Instruction

Why This Collection?

How This Collection Is Organized

References

Part I: Writing in Medicine and Public Health

Chapter 1: Teaching Medical Students to Write Proper Clinical Notes Using Expectancy-Value Theory

Literature Review

Expectancy-Value Framework for Teaching Clinical Notes

How We Put It into Practice

Year 1, Semester 1

Year 1, Semester 2

Year 2, Semester 1

Year 2, Semester 2

Evaluation of the Framework

Discussion and Implications for Practice

Chapter 2: What Can We Learn About "Advanced Literacy for Research" in Two Colombian Graduate Programs?

The State of Latin American Scholarship on Postsecondary Reading and Writing

Sociocultural Approaches to Writing in the Health Professions

Institutional Context of the Two Graduate Programs

What Do the Policies and Institutional Document State?

Features of the Research Training Curriculum

Faculty Teams

Literacy Expectations

Navigating between Research Courses and Mentoring

Writing a Research Article: A Shared Task

Writing a Research Proposal: Nobody Can Write Your Proposal but You!

Implications for Graduate Literacy Curricula

Chapter 3: Supporting Medical Writers in the Twenty-First Century

Forms of Medical Writing Education and Support

Research Questions

Methods

Results

Discussion

Implications for Practice

Part II: Writing in Nursing.

Chapter 4: Developing Students' Professional Identity through Writing and Peer Review

Institutional Ethnography

Writing in Nursing

Process Pedagogy

TFT and Threshold Concepts

Institutional Context and Initial Course Development

Course Redesign

Where Are We Now? IE

Chapter 5: Nursing Simulations and Intermediary Genres: Bridging Students' Classroom and Clinical Writing

Field Context

Challenges of Teaching Writing in Nursing

Simulation Genres as Intermediary Genres

Analysis

Negotiating Importance

Communicating Importance

Recommendations for Instructors

Chapter 6: "Semi-Embedding" Writing Center Specialists in a Master's-Level Nursing Course to Improve Perceptions of Writing Support

Writing Instruction in the Nursing Discipline

Expectations and Abilities of MSN Student-Writers

Nursing Partnerships with Writing Specialists, Writing Programs, and Writing Centers

Institutional Context and Methods

Survey Results

Reflections from the Writing Center Specialists and a Nursing Faculty Member

Recommendations for Instructors and Administrators

Chapter 7: Writing-Related Threshold Concepts in Doctoral Nursing Education

Threshold Concepts

The Doctoral Introductory Course

Scaffolded Assignments

Metacognitive Activities

Peer Review and Critique

Research Design and Data Collection

Student Liminal Spaces during the Course

Writing the Literature Review

Transitioning to a New Researcher and Writer Identity

Contributing to Research Community as a Peer Reviewer

Conclusion and Recommendations for Instructors

Part III: Writing in Allied Health and Pharmacy.

Chapter 8: When the Classroom is the Workplace: Developing Writing Curricula for EMS and Fire Service Training Programs

Writing Initiatives on the University-Workplace-Community Continuum

Turning to the Seven Tenets of Lean Technical Communication

The Research Site: The EMS-Fire Service Workplace and Classroom Training and Writing Practice in the EMS-Fire Service Workplace

Creating a Partnership with MFD's Training Academy

Using Longitudinal Research to Gain Curricular Insights

Identifying Structural Overlaps and Tensions

Generating Locally Supported Data

Assessing Participants' Knowledge from Training

Assessing Widely Used Health-Care Writing Mnemonics

The EMS and Fire Service Writing Curriculum: Guiding Principles and Structure

Guiding Principles

Structure and Assessment

Practical Takeaways

Chapter 9: Online Instruction on Scholarly Writing and Library Research in a Physician Assistant Program: Laying the Foundation for Developing Academic Literacies and Examining Evidence-Based Research

Academic Literacies

Information Literacy Curricula

Teaching Writing Skills on the Graduate Level

Genre Theory

Scaffolded Writing Assignments

Formative Feedback

Online Instruction

History of MHS 600 and Original Design

Redesign of MHS 600

Feedback from Previous Course Evaluations

Revision of the Course Centered on the Genre of the Research Review Essay

Results of the Redesign

Recommendations

Chapter 10: Enhancing Communication Competencies: A Model for Pharmacy and Writing and Communication Center Partnerships

Writing and Communication in Pharmacy Education

Writing and Communication Centers and the Health Professions

COP and Writing Partnerships at NSU

Conclusions and Recommendations

References.

Part IV: Writing in Interprofessional Contexts

Chapter 11: Teaching Culturally Sensitive Care through Reflective Writing

Background

Population Health and Cultural Competence

Interprofessional Education

Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Course and Program Development

Insights from Reflective Writing

Conclusion and Recommendations

Chapter 12: Communicating "Patient-Centered Care": A Case Study for Collaborative Writing in the Health Professions

Lifehouse Case Study Background

Writing as a Socially and Professionally Productive Practice

The Interviews

Tensions Surrounding "Patient-Centered Care"

Case Study Development

Writing Case Studies

Introducing Case Studies in the Classroom

Notes

Chapter 13: Graphic Medicine: Theory, Utility, and Practice in Interprofessional Contexts

Graphic Medicine in Interprofessional Contexts

Graphic Medicine Workshop Examples

Body-Mapping

Life-Mapping

Community-Mapping

Other Activities

Jam Comics

During, Before, After

Graphic Journaling

Challenges

Looking Forward

Chapter 14: Promoting Writing through Teacherless Writing Groups

Historical Perspective and Literature Review about Writing Groups

How Do Writing Groups Work? Why Are Writing Groups Useful?

Our Teacherless Writing Group

Reflections of Group Members

Conclusion: The "Prognosis" of Writing in the Health Professions

Health Professions and Genres

Places

Languages

The Third (and Fourth) Industrial Revolutions

Theories and Methods

Theories

Big Data

UX

Multidirectional Knowledge Transfer

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Index.

Notes:

Issued in print 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Teaching writing in the health professions

ISBN:

1-00-316294-0

1-000-47539-5

1-000-47538-7

1-003-16294-0

9781003162940

OCLC:

1272998708