{"id":184,"date":"2012-05-07T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=184"},"modified":"2012-05-07T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T01:00:03","slug":"adults-with-disabilities-tutor-medical-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/05\/07\/adults-with-disabilities-tutor-medical-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Adults with disabilities tutor medical students"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of people with intellectual disabilities played a big role in educating Gippsland-based medical students at a special forum in April.<\/p>\n

Students, education leaders and clinical educators travelled to Monash University\u2019s Gippsland Campus for\u00a0the group workshop. Medical students from East Gippsland Regional Clinical School sites in Sale and Bairnsdale, along with Gippsland Regional Clinical School students from the Latrobe Valley, South Gippsland and West Gippsland took part in the joint education session with eight people from Cooinda Hill Adult Training Support Service, a day service for adults with a disability.<\/p>\n

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The group of people from the Cooinda Hill Adult Training Support Service who helped out at a Gippsland-wide education day. <\/p><\/div>\n

The Cooinda Hill participants became the \u2018tutors\u2019 for the day in an exercise that helped the medical\u00a0students learn about communication.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 44 medical students divided into groups, with each group meeting with a Cooinda \u2018tutor.\u2019 The students asked those from Cooinda for information about themselves \u2013 where they live, what they like doing, what\u00a0team they barrack for, what they like doing with their friends and what they do at work.\u00a0 After the initial\u00a0chat, the medical students were asked to explain a medical condition to the \u2018tutor\u2019\u2013 anything from the\u00a0common cold, to dandruff or back pain. The students had to work out how best to communicate using plain English and without jargon.<\/p>\n

Dr Jane Tracy, Education Director at the Monash University Centre for Developmental Disability Health, who\u00a0facilitated the workshop, said the purpose of the workshop was to assist the medical students with their\u00a0understanding of the difficulties people with disabilities sometimes face when visiting a doctor, such as\u00a0not being spoken to directly or using words that are difficult to understand.\u00a0The Cooinda \u2018tutors\u2019 helped by telling the students when they didn\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n

The most valuable part of these sessions is the direct contact between the \u2018tutors\u2019 and the students and\u00a0the ways they found to improve their communication to patients with disabilities.<\/p>\n

Once that activity was completed, the whole group came together and those from Cooinda Hill spoke about\u00a0their own experiences of doctors or hospitals. They also provided some thoughts on what skills the medical\u00a0students should learn to improve their approach to those who have disabilities.<\/p>\n

The event was organised and coordinated by East Gippsland Regional Clinical School Clinical Educator Marnie\u00a0Connolly for all of the medical students in the School of Rural Health South East region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of people with intellectual disabilities played a big role in educating Gippsland-based medical students at a special forum in April. Students, education leaders and clinical educators travelled to Monash University\u2019s Gippsland Campus for\u00a0the group workshop. Medical students from East Gippsland Regional Clinical School sites in Sale and Bairnsdale, along with Gippsland Regional Clinical […]<\/p>\n Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}