Blue Book Electives:
The Joys & Sorrows of Medicine: An Introduction to Filmmaking

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Course Description:

Observing, listening, and constructing a coherent narrative are critical skills needed to become an effective physician.

Yet these very skills are being eroded by medicine's reliance on increasingly sophisticated laboratory testing and other technological advances.

This class seeks to hone skills of observing, deep listening, communicating and constructing a clinical narrative that is meaningful to the patient.

In this course, students will practice interviewing each other; then they will interview UT faculty and edit short videos based these interviews.

In addition to enhancing communication, observation, listening and narration, this course will allow humanistic learning of the personal "joys and sorrows" of our own faculty.