Medical Readers Theater, University of California, Irvine

Medical Readers Theater is a single 2 hour session which is required for groups of 8-10 3rd year students rotating through the Family Medicine clerkship (100 students each year). Its overall goal is to expose medical students in their first year of clinical training to various issues of aging. Sessions are held conjointly with an equal number of senior citizens living in a community residential facility. Students and residents perform brief skits together, then discuss. Required course. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.