This presentation was presented at a PhD discussion workshop @ Brunel University

1. @ Brunel
University
March 2015
Surfacing
abuse, neglect and disrespect
in Obstetrics
What about student learning?
Veronica Mitchell
B Sc (Physio) M Phil (HES)
Health Sciences Faculty
University of Cape Town / University of the Western Cape
South Africa

4. “Committed outsider”
questioning practices
through
constructive criticism

5. Curriculum
PhD Research Project

6. education through the lens of social justice
ought to confront
the real-life issues of societal injustice
rather than be designed
to provide
“medical students with uncontroversial
and politically neutral clinical skills”
Coria, A., Mc Kelvey, G., Charlton, P., Woodworth, M., & Lahey, T. 2013. The design of medical school social justice curriculum. Academic Medicine, 88(10).
Teaching

15. Me & my Dilemmas: Promoting a culture of
conversation in exploring the boundary lines
“That everyone feels the same and it has
happened for years – yet it all continues!!
Feels like a lost cause”
The hierarchy is powerful!
“ So many (if not ALL of us!)
have experienced human rights injustices, yet few have made
reports.
2010 Students

17. Patient-centred maternity care code

18. Shift from
a culture of silence
to dialogue
Articulation
of real-world problems
Sharing

19. How can a
4th year student
lay a complaint
against a doctor?
It is unlikely to bear fruit!

20. Using Google Drive http://emergingicts.blogspot.com/p/guide.html

21. Reflective teaching tool https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/6600

22. Blog
Interviews
Classroom activity

24. My journey

25. Interviews
with educators
“Drawing is not my usual
form of expression”

28. Classroom activity

29. Classroom activity
A creative and
powerful way to
express things that
may be difficult to
explain in words.
helped reflect my
thoughts in a
visual way
a great way to
expose inner-
underlying
subconscious
thoughts

31. Before
After 8 week rotation

32. Jewitt,C & Oyama,R. 2001. Visual Meaning: A social semiotic approach. In (eds.) T. van Leeuwen & Jewitt, Handbook of visual analysis. London: SAGE.
Social semiotics of
visual communication
“ involves the description of semiotic resources,
what can be said and done with images
(and other visual means of communication)
and how the things people
say and do with images can be
interpreted
Emergence of self

33. What are
the drawings
doing
for us?
How do
we best
analyse these
data?
What
meanings do
we draw
from this
tool?
My inquiry

34. Email communication
Gratitude by the students
that
• their experiences
taken seriously
• Voices heard
!

36. Thank you