The Benefits Of Healthcare Students Watching Television Dramas
Ronnie Buell
Professor Casamassima
EMF 140
2/26/15
Paper #1 As a Healthcare Management major here at Towson University you really gain fantastic knowledge about the medical field. The university offers interactive courses where students are able to interactively learn with hands on courses giving them a feel for what the medical field will really be like. The way that movies and television shows portray the medical field in a way is right but can be over dramatized at times. There are many benefits to healthcare students watching these television dramas. It is not uncommon for most students entering these medical fields to be hooked on these television shows and begin to develop a warped concept for how their future will really be. Whether or not these shows are always accurate, they do provide fast action medical scenarios, which later can be determined whether the accuracy or response time was correct. (Burgess 2015) These shows can be somewhat of a learning experience for medical students. Professors at some medical schools have been notorious for using TV drama clips which will either prove or disprove the assumptions about how the medical field is. In the past there have been numerous accounts in which the rescuer states that they had learned the techniques used to save the individual such as CPR by watching television. (Temple 2015). Although there are many benefits to healthcare students watching medical dramas there are definitely some downsides. Many times these television shows inaccurately portray the way medicine is used. A major misconception that can be taken from television shows is that there are critical cases that have a diagnoses and the patient getting healed and healthy by the end of a 1 hour show, which is obviously impossible. Also in medical television dramas the doctors are mostly handling patients that are in life-threatening situations or crazy scenarios when in reality they normally have common cases and not a lot of
Professor Casamassima
EMF 140
2/26/15
Paper #1 As a Healthcare Management major here at Towson University you really gain fantastic knowledge about the medical field. The university offers interactive courses where students are able to interactively learn with hands on courses giving them a feel for what the medical field will really be like. The way that movies and television shows portray the medical field in a way is right but can be over dramatized at times. There are many benefits to healthcare students watching these television dramas. It is not uncommon for most students entering these medical fields to be hooked on these television shows and begin to develop a warped concept for how their future will really be. Whether or not these shows are always accurate, they do provide fast action medical scenarios, which later can be determined whether the accuracy or response time was correct. (Burgess 2015) These shows can be somewhat of a learning experience for medical students. Professors at some medical schools have been notorious for using TV drama clips which will either prove or disprove the assumptions about how the medical field is. In the past there have been numerous accounts in which the rescuer states that they had learned the techniques used to save the individual such as CPR by watching television. (Temple 2015). Although there are many benefits to healthcare students watching medical dramas there are definitely some downsides. Many times these television shows inaccurately portray the way medicine is used. A major misconception that can be taken from television shows is that there are critical cases that have a diagnoses and the patient getting healed and healthy by the end of a 1 hour show, which is obviously impossible. Also in medical television dramas the doctors are mostly handling patients that are in life-threatening situations or crazy scenarios when in reality they normally have common cases and not a lot of