Strengthening Resilience in Medical and Health Professions Education: The Dynamic Interaction of Culture, Humanistic Environment, and Positive Role Modelling

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Abstract

Medical and health professions education should give attention to faculty and student wellbeing and create a supportive curriculum and teaching-learning process to assure the achievement of competency and readiness of graduates. This chapter highlights that the students, faculty, patients, and other human enterprises are the center of the process. Relevant theories and practices on resilience, burnout, and wellbeing will be discussed comprehensively in the medical and health professions education context in general and in a hierarchical-collectivist cultural context. Resilience or perseverance is the ability of an individual to respond to stress healthily and adaptively so that people may ‘bounce back’ from challenging circumstances and even become more robust in the process. On the other hand, the failed adaptation will result in burnout. The balance between resilience support and burnout prevention is believed to promote wellbeing. The concept is highly relevant to the vision of creating future medical and health professionals and in any efforts involving current students and faculty. In addition to individual processes and development, resilience is influenced by the learning environment. The socialization process within the education milieu allows students and faculties to stay motivated in achieving their goals, prevent burnout and keep developing their personal and professional identity. Studies show that interventions on the individual without paying attention to the learning environment are not adequate. The keys to nurturing and humanistic learning environment which supports resilience are at the individual, interpersonal, and organization/system levels in which culture is embedded. This chapter will also describe that positive role-modeling and mentoring can create the expected learning environment in hierarchical and collectivist cultural context.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChallenges and Opportunities in Health Professions Education
Subtitle of host publicationPerspectives in the Context of Cultural Diversity
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages267-291
Number of pages25
ISBN (Electronic)9789811672323
ISBN (Print)9789811672316
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2022

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