PMID- 31611284
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210929
LR  - 20210929
IS  - 1473-4265 (Electronic)
IS  - 1468-215X (Linking)
VI  - 46
IP  - 4
DP  - 2020 Dec
TI  - Transformational learning for health professionals through a Theatre of the 
      Oppressed workshop.
PG  - 411-416
LID - 10.1136/medhum-2019-011718 [doi]
AB  - Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) is a powerful participatory tool for communities to 
      examine their struggles against oppression. The healthcare community has problems 
      inherent to complex, unequal power equations, and TO may be a useful means to 
      understand and respond to their struggle. A 3-day workshop on TO was facilitated 
      by the authors in the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS) in Dehradun, 
      India, in August 2017. The workshop culminated in the 'Forum Theatre', which 
      included five short plays, each depicting a struggle due to real-life oppression 
      faced by one or the other participant. The audience (about 200 invited members of 
      the HIMS community) chose one play depending on the struggle with which they 
      identified most. That play was 'forumed': spectators were invited to replace the 
      struggling person and demonstrate how they would handle the oppression. Over the 
      next week, participants reflected on the workshop through a structured online 
      questionnaire. The feedback (n=16/27 participants; response rate 59.3%) was 
      subjected to descriptive statistics and to qualitative analysis. The highest 
      average Likert score (out of a maximum of 5) was given to the following items: TO 
      engages senses and emotions (4.6+/-0.50), can help inculcate ethical behaviour 
      (4.4+/-0.81), identifies conflict (4.4+/-0.51), and resolves issues of attitude, 
      behaviour, communication, diversity and empathy (4.4+/-0.73). The Forum Theatre was 
      reported to be a means to "express emotions and opinions and to simultaneously 
      gather the same from others"; "make people push their own limits"; "bring out 
      social problems in public"; "examine the root causes behind lived experience"; 
      "provide context for understanding and for exploring alternatives"; and "convert 
      thoughts to action." In conclusion, TO is an engaging activity that identifies 
      conflict; participants' initial reactions suggest that it may initiate change in 
      the ABCDE attributes (attitude, behaviour, communication, diversity, ethics and 
      empathy) of medical professionals.
CI  - (c) Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and 
      permissions. Published by BMJ.
FAU - Singh, Satendra
AU  - Singh S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4857-659X
AD  - Physiology, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India.
FAU - Kalra, Juhi
AU  - Kalra J
AD  - Pharmacology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, India.
FAU - Das, Sanjoy
AU  - Das S
AD  - Forensic Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, India.
FAU - Barua, Purnima
AU  - Barua P
AD  - Microbiology, Jorhat Medical College and Hospital, Jorhat, India.
FAU - Singh, Navjeevan
AU  - Singh N
AD  - Pathology, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India.
FAU - Dhaliwal, Upreet
AU  - Dhaliwal U
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3064-6609
AD  - Ophthalmology, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India 
      upreetdhaliwal@yahoo.com.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20191013
PL  - United States
TA  - Med Humanit
JT  - Medical humanities
JID - 100959585
SB  - IM
MH  - Communication
MH  - *Education, Medical, Undergraduate
MH  - Empathy
MH  - Humans
MH  - India
MH  - *Learning
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Communication
OT  - Diversity
OT  - Education, medical
OT  - Empathy
OT  - Medical/health humanities
OT  - Theatre of the Oppressed
COIS- Competing interests: None declared.
EDAT- 2019/10/16 06:00
MHDA- 2021/09/30 06:00
CRDT- 2019/10/16 06:00
PHST- 2019/08/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/10/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/09/30 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/10/16 06:00 [entrez]
AID - medhum-2019-011718 [pii]
AID - 10.1136/medhum-2019-011718 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Humanit. 2020 Dec;46(4):411-416. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011718. Epub 2019 
      Oct 13.