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The “draw-and-talk” technique has become popular in medical training, as it can help healthcare practitioners develop empathic understanding of patients and contribute to personal transformation. We adopted this method to make the teaching of transitional care planning more relevant to post-graduate residents undergoing their internal medicine training at a medical center in Taiwan. Before the conventional lecture on discharge planning, trainees were invited to draw their “home” and “life as older adults” and share their drawings with others. Subsequently, they were guided to consider whether their home would be livable if they either had a disability or were old. The drawings and narratives were analyzed thematically, and feedback on the session was collected. Trainees were initially of the opinion that they did not have any role in discharge planning. However, the emphasis on the self-experience of drawing and the thematic use of “home”
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A technician works on a line used to provide broadband internet service in a rural are in Stowe, Vermont. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
From exchanging vital resources, like ventilators, to launching mobile vaccine delivery, rural healthcare innovations have been plentiful during the pandemic.
“I do think necessity has been the mother of invention,” said Tom Morris, associate administrator for Rural Health Policy in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). One of the clearest examples is the boom in telehealth. “It clearly has played a role in keeping services available…and maybe even expanded availability of care to places in rural America that even before the pandemic were not as well served,” said Keith Mueller, a national expert on rural healthcare issues at the University of Iowa.