Publications by authors named "P U Macneill"
In their article Little, Jordens, and Sayers developed the notion of "discourse communities"-as groups of people who share an ideology and common "language"-with the support of seminal ideas from M.M. Bakhtin.
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- The mistreatment of medical and nursing students, as well as junior health professionals, is a widespread issue influenced by hierarchical cultures in healthcare, often perpetuated by those who experience it.
- A unique approach using verbatim theater was employed to address these issues, where the script for a play was created solely from interviews with 30 healthcare students and professionals about their training and work experiences.
- The play debuted in October 2017, aimed at raising awareness and stimulating discussions regarding workplace mistreatment, followed by focus groups that analyzed its impact on audience reflection and potential cultural change in healthcare settings.
The process for introducing and developing a program for teaching medical professionalism at the National University of Singapore, School of Medicine is outlined. Professionalism was recognised as embracing 'honesty and integrity,' 'responsibility and participation,' 'respect and sensitivity,' and 'compassion and empathy.' Those broad values are expressed as specific attitudes and behaviours that are taught and assessed throughout the course.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis is a critical response to "Fragile objects: A visual essay," by Chapman et al. published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (2019, 16(2): 185-189). Whilst "Fragile objects" is evocative of the author(s)' experience in sitting with a man ("Patrick"), who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I express concern that there are unwarranted and unsubstantiated conclusions drawn about Patrick's phenomenological experience of dementia/Alzheimer's.
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