Monday, April 24, 2006
Humanities Invades Medical School Curriculum
From bioethics.net, this post:
At Some Medical Schools, Humanities Join the Curriculum
17 Apr 2006 - A growing number of medical schools are adding humanities to the usual forced march of physiology, pathology and microbiology. http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=1734
The link is to an April 17 article in the N.Y. Times. Permit some shameless self-promotion on this point. I've been teaching a literature course at the University of Texas - Southwestern Medical School for the past 10 years, offered as an elective in Internal Medicine, Surgery, and Pediatrics to fourth-year medical students, together with third-year law students. It's a fantastic way to give the students a humane and humanistic grounding in their chosen professions. I recommend the humanities influence in medical education wholeheartedly. [tm]
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/2006/04/humanities_inva.html