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Evolving discourses of COVID-19 and implications for medical education: a critical discourse analysis

BACKGROUND: The othering of individuals has been identified as a concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to examine public commentary during early stages of the pandemic for: 1) emerging discourses that highlighted population-level inequities, and 2) the implications thes...

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Autores principales: Tang, Vincent, van Buuren, Asia, Martimianakis, Maria Athina (Tina)
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Medical Education Journal 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9684037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36440070
http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.71675
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description BACKGROUND: The othering of individuals has been identified as a concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to examine public commentary during early stages of the pandemic for: 1) emerging discourses that highlighted population-level inequities, and 2) the implications these discourses may have for medical education. METHODS: Using a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, an archive of texts available in the public domain discussing COVID-19 was iteratively created, reviewed, and coded. We used an intersectional framework to analyze how COVID-19 highlighted structural and institutional inequity at the population level. RESULTS: We found 86 representative texts published from March to June 2020. We focused our analysis on implications within Ontario. The two major discourses that emerged were “COVID-19 as Equalizer” and “COVID-19 as Discriminator.” The former emerged in the early stages of the pandemic to mobilize public health recommendations and describe near-universal impacts on the public. The latter followed to highlight new and pre-existing forms of marginalization exacerbated by the pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides a unique perspective on how structural and systemic responses to COVID-19 were shaped through analysis of public discourse, and therefore, has implications for how the COVID-19 pandemic and future pandemics are framed for future medical learners.
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spelling pubmed-96840372022-11-24 Evolving discourses of COVID-19 and implications for medical education: a critical discourse analysis Tang, Vincent van Buuren, Asia Martimianakis, Maria Athina (Tina) Can Med Educ J Original Research BACKGROUND: The othering of individuals has been identified as a concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study was to examine public commentary during early stages of the pandemic for: 1) emerging discourses that highlighted population-level inequities, and 2) the implications these discourses may have for medical education. METHODS: Using a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, an archive of texts available in the public domain discussing COVID-19 was iteratively created, reviewed, and coded. We used an intersectional framework to analyze how COVID-19 highlighted structural and institutional inequity at the population level. RESULTS: We found 86 representative texts published from March to June 2020. We focused our analysis on implications within Ontario. The two major discourses that emerged were “COVID-19 as Equalizer” and “COVID-19 as Discriminator.” The former emerged in the early stages of the pandemic to mobilize public health recommendations and describe near-universal impacts on the public. The latter followed to highlight new and pre-existing forms of marginalization exacerbated by the pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides a unique perspective on how structural and systemic responses to COVID-19 were shaped through analysis of public discourse, and therefore, has implications for how the COVID-19 pandemic and future pandemics are framed for future medical learners. Canadian Medical Education Journal 2022-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9684037/ /pubmed/36440070 http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.71675 Text en © 2022 Tang, van Buuren, Martimianakis; licensee Synergies Partners. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Journal Systems article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9684037/
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