#12 Philosophy of Technology in Medical Education

We discuss "Technical Difficulties: Teaching Critical Philosophical Orientations toward Technology" by Benjamin Chin-Yee, Laura Nimmon and Mario Veen. You can download the open access article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10401334.2022.2130334 

This is the 12th installment of the series on philosophy in medical education of Mario Veen and Anna Cianciolo, which appears in Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal -- it will also appear as a book chapter in our upcoming book Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education (Springer, 2023) which you can order here: https://www.routledge.com/Helping-a-Field-See-Itself-Envisioning-a-Philosophy-of-Medical-Education/Veen-Cianciolo/p/book/9781032204147 

 

Dr. Benjamin Chin-Yee is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Hematologist in the Division of Hematology at Western University, Canada, which is located on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Attawandaron peoples. Dr. Chin-Yee's research examines the impact of technology on the patient-physician relationship and how to integrate values and evidence to improve clinical decision-making. 

Dr. Laura Nimmon is Scientist at the Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES) and Associate Professor of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is grateful to work at the University of British Columbia’s point grey campus which is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Slay-wa-tuth, Peoples. Dr. Nimmon’s research explores the social and relational aspects of learning and professional practice in medicine.

 

Mario Veen (@MarioVeen) is Associate Professor at the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in The Netherlands. Mario is action editor for the Philosophy in Medical Education series of the journal Teaching & Learning in Medicine and co-editor of the first two books about philosophy and medical education: Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education: A Journey Towards Mutual Understanding with Megan Brown and Gabrielle Finn (Springer, 2022) and Helping a Field See Itself: Envisioning a Philosophy of Medical Education (Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2023). He hosts the podcasts Let Me Ask You Something, and Life From Plato’s Cave.

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