RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 “Attempting to say something without saying it …”: writing haiku in health care education
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 39
OP 42
DO 10.1136/mh.29.1.39
VO 29
IS 1
A1 F C Biley
A1 J Champney-Smith
YR 2003
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/29/1/39.abstract
AB Over a number of years the authors have been running short haiku writing workshops and have been using haiku as an evaluation tool. This paper describes those experiences and uses the haiku generated in these workshops to illustrate how this poetic form can be used as—for example, part of the process of reflection, to explore emotional and practical issues related to clinical health care practice, to refine writing skills and precision and, it is hoped, to convey to others the essence of the experience of health care provision, education and, perhaps, health, illness, and disease.