Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

Walk a mile in my shoes.

This RN, RRA-eligible, presented an inservice educational program on an average day in the life of a nurse to a Medical Record Department. The following article is her presentation.

Walk a mile in my shoes: a chronic illness care workshop for first-year students.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A number of educators and recent medical school graduates have suggested a need to expand predoctoral training in chronic illness care. We developed a workshop to enhance first-year students' self-awareness regarding attitudes toward chronic illness care and to help them communicate effectively around patient self-care. METHODS Students participated in a two-part wor...

"I'm Man Enough: Are You?": The Queer (Im)Possibilities of Walk a Mile in Her Shoes

"I'm Man Enough; Are You?": The Queer (Im)possibilities of Walk A Mile In Her Shoes

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is a staple national program that engages college males in sexual violence prevention on many college campuses. In this manuscript, I use queer theory and crip theory—a conceptual framework that merges queer and critical disability theory—to explore both the positive outcomes and potential harm done in the production and implementation of this event. I conclude the manu...

Walking a mile in their patients' shoes: empathy and othering in medical students' education

One of the major tasks of medical educators is to help maintain and increase trainee empathy for patients. Yet research suggests that during the course of medical training, empathy in medical students and residents decreases. Various exercises and more comprehensive paradigms have been introduced to promote empathy and other humanistic values, but with inadequate success. This paper argues that...