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Role of humanities in medical curricula in the South-East Asia region: a scoping review [PDF]
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsCountries in the WHO’s South-East Asia Region (SEAR) have made significant progress in training healthcare workers. However, concerns remain about the quality and competencies of these workers, particularly in areas such as people-centred care and ...
Saroj Jayasinghe +5 more
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MedEdPublish, 2022 Background: This paper describes the development of a culturally competent medical humanities course for second and third-year medical students at the ethnically diverse College of Medicine at Qatar University. First taught in 2016, the elective seminar “
Suhad Daher-Nashif, Tanya Kane
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Fighting Food Poverty through Film: Or Why Global Challenge Research Needs the Arts and Humanities
Humanities, 2020 Food poverty is just one example of a global challenge where the Arts and Humanities perspective risks being judged at worst to have no relevance at all, and at best to be included as no more than an accessible tool to facilitate public engagement and ...
Margaret Topping
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A Content Analysis of Three Works of Aviation Literature
International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 2022 Using the qualitative research method of Content Analysis, a comprehensive exploration was conducted into three acclaimed works of aviation literature: Wind, Sand and Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; West with the Night, by Beryl Markham; and Fate is ...
Paul A. Craig
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Quiet Contributors: The Role of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Innovation
Foresight and STI Governance, 2018 Many countries are directing their attention to the support of technological innovation with the intent to obtain economic and social benefits at home while positioning themselves for high margin, high technology export markets. The under-considered and
Jonathan Linton
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Compassion, Necessity, and the Pharmakon of the Health Humanities
Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2016 Health humanities is an emergent interdisciplinary field drawing on existing traditions of using resources from the arts and humanities in the education of health professionals. Cultivation of compassion is often cited, though not without some debate, as
Graham McCaffrey
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Medical Humanities in the Nepalese context
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2021 Medical humanities use the creative and intellectual strengths of the arts for specific purposes in medical education. The author read with great interest the Medical humanities program at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences and has been associated ...
Pathiyil Ravi Shankar
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Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 2023 This paper overviews the development of the notion of trans-disciplinarity in Lithuania and its neighbouring contexts, and makes an attempt to identify its current relation to science and art. The paper analyses the ways in which artistic research,
Vytautas Michelkevičius, Aldis Gedutis
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The ‘Other’ in Ourselves: Exploring the Educational Power of the Humanities and Arts
Research on Ageing and Social Policy, 2018 Humanities and arts have been considered some of the central legacies of the former classical civilizations and ancient civilizations. Taking this knowledge as a base, the cultural-related disciplines or fields of study that humanities and arts cover ...
Maite Santiago Garabieta
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Humanities and Geriatric Education: a Strategy for Recruitment?
Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2015 Ageing is a common subject in arts and literature as it is a universal experience. The use of the humanities in medical education may have a positive effect on trainees’ attitude to caring for seniors and on geriatrics as a career choice.
Christopher Frank, Ruth Elwood Martin
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