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The ‘well-aware’ practitioner
Published in Rosemary Cook, Awareness and Influence in Health and Social Care, 2021
Curiosity is what makes some people look up a clinical condition they have not encountered before, or ask someone to explain it. Curiosity makes people read articles on topics they don’t need to know about, watch discussion programmes, go to conferences, listen to strangers talking, and accept unfamiliar tasks. It is almost the opposite of being focused, which might logically seem a prerequisite for developing awareness: it is about being eclectic, interested, and positively indiscriminate. Those nuggets of information, or ideas, or contacts that you gain as a result of exercising your curiosity, can be squirrelled away and may serve only to give you a different perspective and a broader understanding. Or they may come back months or years later to provide an essential platform for a job application, or a piece of work, which you could not have anticipated. The key principle is that nothing you do or learn is ever wasted: so the more you do and learn, the more benefit you gain. This is the toddler’s approach to life: an endlessly repeated refrain of ‘But why …?’ To tip: build your knowledge base — be up to date, understand policy, and create informal networks. Get involved in wider agendas — professional bodies, Healthcare Commission, Audit Commission, Department of Health. (Fran Woodard)
The essence of good doctoring: A personal reflection
Published in Peter Tate, Francesca Frame, The Doctor's Communication Handbook, 2019
So, what are these internal drivers that lead us to the very essence of your job? There are three of them, I think. First and perhaps most important is curiosity – a desire to discover what really matters to your patient. This leads, second, to a need to help your patients to understand, which leads, third, to an understanding of trust. Trust is there, whether you seek it or not, so perhaps it should drive you. These three drivers were important to my father, and helped me through my own career, and perhaps they will help you in yours.
Be Curious
Published in Scott A. Simpson, Anna K. McDowell, The Clinical Interview, 2019
In her essay, “Curiosity,” Dr. Faith Fitzgerald writes how curiosity in medicine is increasingly threatened by the emphasis on examinable facts, the focus on efficiency in our hospitals and clinics, and our reliance on technology.3 Yet sonder and the curiosity that naturally arises from it enrich the patient’s care. Curiosity makes our relationships with patients more interesting and lively. For the clinician, curiosity lies at the heart of our desire to understand the patient’s problems and emotional responses. This understanding helps us treat the specific needs of the individual patient. In this example, understanding that the patient—who may be dismissed by some as “single” or “alcoholic”—is also a grieving husband and father opens a new level of understanding and compassion in the therapeutic relationship.
Measuring an understudied factor in medical education – development and validation of the medical curiosity scale
Published in Medical Education Online, 2023
Till Johannes Bugaj, Tim Alexander Schwarz, Valentin Terhoeven, Ede Nagy, Anna Cranz, Hans-Christoph Friederich, Christoph Nikendei
Curiosity has been found to impact medical training in several ways. It is positively linked to memory [11], recall [12], and predicts test accuracy; the more curious participants were about a test question, the better they performed on it [13]. In addition, curiosity has been associated with positive indicators of mental and emotional well-being [14,15]. Moreover, curiosity may be critical for sound mental health [16]. It is established that medical students need to be fast learners in a field characterized by heavy workload and rigorous exams. Unfortunately, it is also acknowledged that this leaves a toll on students’ mental health, with burnout and depression rates consistently higher in medical students than in other student samples [17]. Thus, the effects of curiosity on learning and mental health are particularly noteworthy [18], (under review).
Staying Curious With Conversational AI in Psychotherapy
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2023
Michael Holohan, Alena Buyx, Amelia Fiske
With the public release of the large language model-driven ChatGPT in November 2022, the potential for Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) has once again catapulted into the spotlight. CAI is increasingly being adopted into psychotherapeutic practice and raises many important ethical questions. We appreciate Sedlakova and Trachsel’s (2023) conceptual exploration of the role of CAI, and the important questions they raise over whether CAI is a tool or an agent. However, rather than focusing on questions of ethical classification, we propose that ethicists and practitioners alike need to embrace a stance of curiosity when it comes to the multiple ways that CAI, patients, and practitioners interact. Of equal importance is to keep the multiplicity of CAI uses and potential within the frame of analysis—across multiple psychotherapeutic modalities and agencies—with the knowledge that the capabilities of these technologies are rapidly changing (Fiske, Henningsen, and Buyx 2019; Holohan and Fiske 2021).
Measuring Six Facets of Curiosity in Germany and the UK: A German-Language Adaptation of the 5DCR and Its Comparability with the English-Language Source Version
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2023
David J. Grüning, Clemens M. Lechner
In a world that continuously accelerates its information exchange (see e.g., Lorenz-Spreen et al., 2019) and grows in complexity, curiosity is a key asset of a person's psychology to keep up with changes and stay informed. 5DCR provides the opportunity to capture people's curiosity on different levels and allow investigations of curiosity's effects on how people cope with complex, uncertain environments. Scoring curiosity on different facets, further, makes it possible to evaluate which type of curiosity may be of importance to navigate specific environments. For example, people scoring high on Joyous Exploration might be handling situations very well, that present much uncertainty and ask for a demand to actively explore. In another vein, Thrill Seeking might be a basic mental requirement for extreme sports, not just reducing experienced fear but even equipping a person with the desire to engage in fearful scenarios and test personal limits.