Jagdish Chaturvedi

Medical Theatre - Course book Jagdish Chaturvedi

This is an actual dessertation submitted by Dr. Chaturvedi to Christ University on the application of Medical Theatre in 2011. This book illustrates various examples of how Medical Theatre workshops were executed in different scenarios for medical students and healthcare professionals. It is a compilation of actual workshop brochures, notes and summaries. The idea is to provide reference framework to people interested in applying this methodology. In this methodology, medical topics are converted into theatrical outcomes (narrations, monologues, stories, clinical scenarios, skits, poems, songs and role-plays). How this can be done in simple steps is demonstrated to the participants. The participants then convert a given topic into a theatrical outcome in a group activity. They also perform a skit on a given pre scripted topic to an invited audience. In addition to all this, at the end they make their own script on the topic of their choice. The learning happens by participating in these activities specifically during the time when they convert a topic into a theatrical outcome. The entire workshop is mixed with lots of theatre games to help learn basic concepts of acting along with the medical learning so that everything turns out to be a fun and enjoyable process.