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 …

Qualitative and quantitative research on the impact of medical and health humanities
teaching in baccalaureate education is sparse. This paper reviews recent studies of the …

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 …

Over the past 20 years, the number of colleges offering programs in medical humanities has
increased, and through the Medical Humanities Initiative at Georgetown University, this pilot …

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 …

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 …

There is a lack of consensus about the outcomes of medical humanities training. In this
qualitative study, the authors analyzed pre-clerkship small group discussions to assess the …

The humanities offer great potential for enhancing professional and humanistic development
in medical education. Yet, although many students report benefit from exposure to the …

Most medical schools in the US, Canada and UK now incorporate some form of arts and
humanities-based teaching into their curricula. What happens in residency is another story …

This paper offers a novel, qualitative approach to evaluating the outcomes of integrating
humanities and ethics into a newly revised pre-clerkship medical education curriculum. The …