#242 Whole person medical education 🗓
With Dr Frikkie
In this very important presentation, Dr Frikkie shares some of the lessons he learned about “WHOLE PERSON MEDICAL EDUCATION.” This is, sadly, a practically neglected aspect of modern-day medical education.
He looks at what is Whole Person Medical Education, what it means, and what it focusses on. We will also consider a few examples of whole person education, as well as examples of whole person medical education, followed by its application in a secular and in a Christian context.
The presentation concludes with a call to pursue ways of implementing whole person medical education for the purpose of whole person healthcare - to God’s glory!
Further resources:
- The Seven Laws of Teaching, John M Gregory pdf
- Teaching to Change Lives, Howard Hendricks pdf
- Foundations for Lifelong Learning, John Piper
- Almost Every Answer for Practically any Teacher!, Bruce Wilkinson
- True Education, H Edward Rowe
- Basic Principles of Education (Extract)
- The Development of family medicine for rural practitioners, Ian Couper
- Postgraduate Diploma in Family Medicine - ICMDA Blended Learning Course
Dr Frikkie
Frikkie serves the Lord Jesus as a Family Physician Educator. He is passionate about the Lord, and about whole person education, for the purpose of whole person healthcare. He has been involved in HCF since 1979. Before becoming a family physician, he did hospital-based medicine, community medicine, and the training of clinical nurse practitioners for 10 years in rural Venda. At McCord’s hospital (in Durban), he was part of the team of carers for 8,000 patients with AIDS. He is happily married to Esther, who loves and serves Jesus as a homemaker and teacher.
