There are a number of serious challenges facing the new student when they meet a patient for the first time. We tackle them in this programme by using a drama-documentary style approach following two students.. The first sequence involves a consultation with an in-patient who has an acute abdominal problem. It is only towards the end of the section that is becomes apparent that this is not how to go about it. Audience reaction has consistently shown...

A press photographer in 1936 London attends an anti-fascism protest in East London where she befriends a brilliant, Jewish medical student and is exposed to the dangers and demands of his world ahead of World War II.

"Nakoshi is getting closer to the crux of who he is, and he's starting with his face--the one he used to have. One by one, the lies Nakoshi and Ito have told each other are coming to light. How will Nakoshi react when he finds out that Ito knew about his cosmetic surgery all along?"--

Social outcast Nakoshi is missing his memories and emotions and lives out of a car until eccentrically attired medical student Ito Manabu suddenly shows up and persuades Nagoshi to get trepanation surgery, which involves drilling holes in a person's skull.

Crossing the Line follows two young medical students from the University of Tasmania, Amy and Paul, as they leave their safe middle class environments for an eight week placement in the remote indigenous communities on Mornington Island. Here, for the first time, they confront the realities of indigenous health care. As they move beyond their professional roles at times, there is an ongoing tension between their personal experience and the professional...

Helping medical students prepare for careers in the field of gerontology, Dr. Jim Pacala, Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School, introduces these eager clinicians to the world of their patients. In The Aging Game, the students become patients, young become old, and these doctors-in-training see meal-time in the nursing home from the other end of the spoon.  The groundbreaking PBS special And Thou Shalt Honor series brings to light...

This award winning film follows a group of medical students and their relationship with the cadavers they dissect. Throughout the film we follow a group of people who donate their bodies to the University of Otago Medical School for students to dissect. In 2006 we interviewed several people who planned to donate their bodies to the Otago Medical School for students to dissect.  We asked them about their lives and their loves, their hopes, their fears,...

Money-driven medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to better understand and address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform during the coming decade. Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the dark side; Enron: The smartest guys in the room) and inspired by Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, Money driven medicine: the real reason health care costs so much, the film goes beyond health insurance to offer...