Sino nga ba ang mga ‘silent mentor’? | I-Witness
Aired (October 28, 2023): Bahagi ng pag-aaral ng medisina ang pag-aaral ng bangkay ng tao at ang mga bangkay o mga ‘silent mentor’ ang nagsisilbi nilang libro para mas mapalawak ang kanilang kaalaman sa medisina. ‘Ika nga sa ingles, “the dead teaching the living.”
Panoorin ang #TheSilentTeacher, dokumentaryo ni Mav Gonzales sa #IWitness.
Full episode: https://youtu.be/kSlg_O88xGE
Panoorin ang #TheSilentTeacher, dokumentaryo ni Mav Gonzales sa #IWitness.
Full episode: https://youtu.be/kSlg_O88xGE
Transcript
00:00 The College of Medicine staff in the University of the Philippines, Manila,
00:04 were just about to receive a call.
00:06 Someone died in their partner hospital.
00:10 At that time, they picked up the body.
00:16 (MUSIC)
00:32 It was raining.
00:33 When the technicians returned, they quickly picked up the body.
00:37 (MUSIC)
00:43 They were taken to the morgue to be embalmed.
00:46 (MUSIC)
01:07 The freshman students of UP Manila College of Medicine or UPCM were in the lab.
01:14 (MUSIC)
01:16 Their lesson will not come from a book today.
01:20 (MUSIC)
01:23 They were placed in their respective stations,
01:26 where different parts of the human body are waiting.
01:31 Before they start.
01:33 (Praying)
01:37 Everyone prayed first.
01:40 (Praying)
01:52 In this class, the teachers are the bodies.
01:56 In English, the dead teaching the living.
02:00 (Praying)
02:07 (Praying)
02:26 In the third century BC, the human body was used by Europeans as part of the study of medicine.
02:35 Until now, for Professor Rafael Bundoc, chair of the anatomy department,
02:40 it is a big challenge for first-year medical students to learn from their silent mentor.
02:47 From day one, when we orient our medical students,
02:51 that is what we say, they have many teachers, professors, and face-to-face.
02:57 We are alive, but we are not important.
03:01 What is important is that they will face a silent mentor first.
03:04 Silent, quiet, mentor, teacher.
03:08 Why do we call them silent mentors?
03:11 Because they do not speak, but they will give their whole body to study.
03:17 That is the ultimate sacrifice in medicine.
03:21 (Music)
03:43 [BLANK_AUDIO]