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This reflective essay is an attempt to organize trends in feedback I have observed during ten
years of coursework, conversations, and correspondence with former students associated …

Purpose Humanities form an integral part of undergraduate medical curricula at numerous
medical schools all over the world, and medical journals publish a considerable quantity of …

Most health professional education consists of three separate stages: a general background
that provides a humanities perspective, a core of basic science or theory courses, and …

Twentieth Century medical education has stressed the basic sciences to the neglect of the
humanities. The intent of this commentary is to explore the humanities' role and contribution …

The undergraduate medical curriculum, together with many of the other healthcare curricula,
is under a constant state of change. Sometimes that change is for the better, very …

We invited baccalaureate educators to submit key facts and brief descriptions of their health
humanities programs. Below are snapshots of thirty-five different programs across thirty …

For decades the paradigm has been to actively train doctors in diagnostic and technical
skills, leaving softer skills–communication, ethics, humanitarianism, empathy–to be picked …

The status, stature, profile, and role of humanities in medical education remain varied across
medical schools and universities. There is a need for standardized curricula, uniform criteria …

The inclusion of the humanities in medical education may offer significant potential benefits
to individual future physicians and to the medical community as a whole. Debate remains …