Use of movies as practical training / exercise teaching materials, entitled “Cine-Pharmacology”.

Abstract

We are using movies as a secondary task of pharmacology practice.　We show several movies suitable as a teaching material of pharmacology or medicine and let students to write a report on drugs and treatment used in the movie. The suitable examples contain Beautiful mind, The awaking, Rain man and Patch Adams and so on. These movies are also useful as education of medical ethics. In this symposium, we will discuss this subject using concrete examples.