Preclinical body

The video piece is a poetic documentary exploring various representations of the body offered in the medical curriculum, moving through discovery learning, clinical skills and anatomy lab experiences. The images and sounds involved derive from interviews with medical students and their clinical teachers in the University of Alberta. The piece simulates the discovery-learning situation, in which the students gather around the table to solve medical "mystery". The scenario, introduced by the teacher, unfolds one page at the time intertwining an actual trauma situation in the ER and a calm discussion in the classroom. Parallel space-time dimensions and the various roles as a patient, doctor and nurse juxtaposed with the learning situation with different personalities form a multi-layered text in which various rhythms, intensities and styles alternate.