Background “Literature and medicine” is increasingly common in medical schools but not
within medical education research. This absence may relate to it not being problematizable …

Background The humanities have long been shown to play an important role in the medical
school curriculum. However, few studies have looked into the opinions of medical students …

Debate over the status of medicine as an Art or Science continues. The aim of this paper is
to discuss the meaning of Art and Science in terms of medicine, and to find out to what extent …

The humanities and arts are appropriate areas of study within interdisciplinary medicine.
Medicine has long been considered to be both a science and an art. Within each patient, the …

In teaching some subjects, conveying complexity can be a great challenge, requiring socio-
historical, philosophical, and practical contextualisation in diverse settings. This is especially …

This article aims to discuss the history of medical history in the British medical
undergraduate curriculum and it reviews the main characters and organisations that have …

arts & humanities Page 1 The first medical humanities programme in Turkey Melih Elcin, Orhan
Odabasi, Kirsten Ward, Sevgi Turan, Canan Akyüz & Iskender Sayek THE MEDICAL …

Google is any guide of popularity, then the notion of a ''core curriculum''—with no further
specification—is a popular one indeed, with some 6.3 million hits proclaimed. This disabling …

The field of medical humanities has traditionally focused on medical students and, more
recently, on premedical undergraduates. Comparatively little formal humanities pedagogy …

Es bien conocido que los avances tecnocientíficos del siglo XX modificaron las ciencias de
la salud, tanto en el ámbito profesional como docente. El crecimiento de la medicina basada …