Thu. May 16, 2019 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room 5 (1F Room D)

Organizer: Junichiro Miyachi(Azai-Higashi Clinic, Hokkaido Centre for Family Medicine, Japan)
Chair: Yuka Miyachi(Department of Palliative Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Japan)

Cultural and medical anthropology, a field of social sciences, is a discipline which can offer collaborative opportunities for family physicians. In this symposium, we will share our experiences of two illustrative collaborative activities between cultural or medical anthropologists and family physicians. The first example will be our case conference to help family physicians to understand how sociocultural contexts, health problems, and clinical interactions are entangled with each other. The second example will be a collaboration regarding qualitative research in which anthropologists can help the process of forming research question, gathering data, and reflexively articulating emerging findings.
Physicians, as well as anthropologists, will present how they perceive the collaborative process to elicit lessons in facilitating the process and overcoming potential barriers. Ultimately, we aim to provide tips for collaboration which will surely motivate participants to take part in existing collaborative activities as well as to initiate their own new collaborative projects with social scientists.