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Medical teachers' discursive positioning of doctors in relation to patients.

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CONTEXT:An important part of a doctor's identity is the social position he or she adopts relative to patients. Dialogic theory predicts that medical school discourses influence the positions students incorporate into their professional identities. As this may affect how students later exercise power in doctor-patient relationships, we set out to examine how medical teachers position doctors in relation to patients. METHODS:Informed by Holland's Figured Worlds theory, which draws important assumptions from Bakhtin, we chose dialogic research methodology to examine how educators' language positions doctors and may influence students' identity formation. We recruited a maximum variation sample of 10 teaching staff and used open prompts in individual semi-structured interviews to elicit discourses of doctors' social position. We used Sullivan's dialogic methodology reflexively to identify informative speech acts (utterances) and to examine how the language used in these constructed doctors' positions. RESULTS:Dominant discourses of Social Superiority, Technical Effectiveness, and Benevolence elevated doctors' positions based on their social status, applied knowledge and trustworthiness, respectively. These positions were defended by predicating medical care on doctors' mastery of treatments and their superior knowledge. A non-dominant discourse of Distributed Power and Responsibility narrowed the positional gap by constructing doctors as empowering patients. CONCLUSIONS:Whereas three conservative discourses upheld doctors' elevated social position, a non-dominant, transformative discourse distributed power. We suggest that doctors will form the best relationships with patients when they are aware of these discourses and know how to navigate them. In pursuit of effective and compassionate patient care, we commend critical pedagogy as a means of articulating non-dominant discourses and increasing students', educators' and doctors' awareness of how they learn the positions of doctors.

journal_name

Med Educ

journal_title

Medical education

authors

Dornan T,Roy Bentley S,Kelly M

doi

10.1111/medu.14074

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-07-01 00:00:00

pages

628-636

issue

eissn

0308-0110

issn

1365-2923

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Medical teachers' discursive positioning of doctors in relation to patients.