Professional Principles
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Dream Doctors’ activity is designed to support and assist children’s medical care, rehabilitation and recovery processes through complete cooperation with the medical team. |
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Each hospital deploys its set staff of Dream Doctors in wards and units according to its needs and priorities, as part of the ward’s team. |
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The clowns work as directed by the medical staff; clowns receive specific instructions and care assignments when beginning their work. |
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| 4. | The clowns are integrated into the treatment staff and the various care procedures; as part of the staff, they must participate in the professional staff meetings (morning meetings, and the like). | |
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The Dream Doctors are artists and actors with experience in theater, clowning, pantomime, dance and music. |
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The clowns receive mentoring in issues involving the arts, medicine and psychology. Training continues throughout the entire year with professional seminars, intensive study-days, professional clowning workshops, and more. |
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We encourage clowns to obtain academic training in a designated degree track for medical clowning and to further their studies towards a Master's Degree at the University of Haifa's Graduate School in Creative Arts Therapies. |
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Professional support and mentoring of the medical clowns continues throughout the year, dictated by professional needs as arising from the on-site work, and pursuant to the yearly development plan. |
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| 9. | The Dream Doctors’ work is documented daily on the project’s website to promote cooperation, transparency and professional knowledge. Hospitals make use of this information for review and evaluation purposes. | |
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Dream Doctors have their own online support forum where they can share, support and consult with each other on a daily basis. |
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Academic and clinical research on the Dream Doctors’ work is encouraged so as to empirically evaluate benefits to patients. |
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