Helping medical students understand postpartum psychosis through the prism of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Phebe Tucker; Sheila Crow; Anne Cuccio; Ronald Schleifer; Jerry B Vannatta

doi:10.1176/appi.ap.28.3.247

Helping medical students understand postpartum psychosis through the prism of "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Acad Psychiatry. 2004 Fall;28(3):247-50. doi: 10.1176/appi.ap.28.3.247.

Authors

Phebe Tucker¹, Sheila Crow, Anne Cuccio, Ronald Schleifer, Jerry B Vannatta

Affiliation

¹ University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1100 N. Lindsay, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA. phebe-tucker@ouhsc.edu

PMID: 15507562
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.28.3.247

Abstract

Objective: We assessed the use of literature to illustrate a postpartum depression lecture.

Methods: Medical students and faculty facilitators were surveyed after small group discussions.

Results: Students' ratings and comments were positive, and faculty comments were neutral to positive.

Conclusion: Students valued this teaching method, while faculty observations reflected challenges of assessing literature's contributions to medical education in improving empathy and treatment outcome.

MeSH terms

Cognition*
Empathy
Helping Behavior*
Humans
Medicine in Literature*
Postpartum Period / psychology*
Psychiatry / education*
Psychiatry / methods*
Psychotic Disorders / etiology*
Psychotic Disorders / therapy*
Students, Medical*
Teaching / methods*
Treatment Outcome