The “Practice of Medical Humanities” of the Department of Medicine’s medical humanities and education discipline planning is designed to help medical students develop and cultivate the skills of observation, analysis, empathy and self-reflection. It is designed to establish the correct values of medical students, implement medical ethics, respect The teaching and application of life, the discipline will send students to medical institutions for field service every year. This year, we have newly opened a group of “Health Communication Teams” to allow students to really go into the community and gain an in-depth understanding of community health promotion and communication. Professor Lu Hongyi from the Department of Communication of Chung Cheng University has been promoting health promotion activities in the community for many years, and has considerable experience in health communication and marketing in the new media generation. Bases, mutual aid families and other fields, understand the needs of community residents for health promotion, and learn community health education skills and methods.
In addition to going to Chiayi to conduct community health education, Teacher Lu also arranged various activities such as studio photography practice, radio podcast rehearsal, senior opera troupe participation, community health education sharing by Gezi Opera teachers, and the movement class of the elders of Minxiong. domain to engage students in learning. Today (8/3), Dr.Wen-Long Cao, director of the Dementia Co-care Center of Tzu Chi Dalin Hospital, visited a family with dementia. At noon, we also invited Dr. Jin-Huang Chen from the Chiayi Xingang Cultural and Educational Foundation to chat with the students about community medical care .
We are very grateful to Teacher Lu for her support and assistance. We hope that through this series of activities and courses, medical students can deeply feel the connection between local culture and health, and think about how to help patients from the role of medical assistants in the future, and seek medical advice. The core value of doctor-patient relationship.