{"id":471,"date":"2012-10-12T07:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=471"},"modified":"2012-10-16T14:54:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T03:54:03","slug":"failing-well-and-lerning-to-laugh-about-it-lessons-in-regaining-humanity-through-improv-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/10\/12\/failing-well-and-lerning-to-laugh-about-it-lessons-in-regaining-humanity-through-improv-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing well and learning to laugh about it&#8230;Lessons in regaining humanity through improv theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Bryan MacLeod and the Cambrian Improv Theatre Group managed to get the entire lunch time crowd in the ballroom up to participate in a series of improv theatre games to demonstrate how failing can be a hilarious way to try and then try again. Our acting skills were put to the test as well our improvisaion skills. I think I&#8217;ll stick to my &#8216;day job&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>PeArLs attended today included one which looked at attributes of medical programs which affect student resilience. What makes a resilient med student? Is it when they successfully deal with being located in a rural and remote setting and need to adapt to their new lifestyle in a more isolated environemnt than what they might be used to? Generally, rural medical programs ensure that students have better access to one-on-one mentoring, clinical supervision and (possibly) support networks.<\/p>\n<p>What about the med student who has to do battle with 60-70 other med students in a busy metropolitan hospital in order to gain access to patients and who has to be self-directed in order to schedule small group tutorials. What mechanisms are in place to enable these students to remain resilient throughout their clinical undergraduate years? Food for thought&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Laura Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Bryan MacLeod and the Cambrian Improv Theatre Group managed to get the entire lunch time crowd in the ballroom up to participate in a series of improv theatre games to demonstrate how failing can be a hilarious way to try and then try again. Our acting skills were put to the test as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/10\/12\/failing-well-and-lerning-to-laugh-about-it-lessons-in-regaining-humanity-through-improv-theatre\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[773],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"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\/817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}