Medical humanities in medical colleges in India: Travellators and speed breakers
India has the largest number of allopathic medical colleges in the world. Recently, a competency-based undergraduate medical curriculum and an attitude, ethics, and communication skills module have been introduced.
Pathiyil Ravi Shankar
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The potential effect of making journals free after a six month embargo [PDF]
This report commissioned by the UK Publishers\u27 Association finds that providing open access to research publications after 6 months rather than 12 might have a material effect on libraries’ subscriptions; and that the impact on publishers’ revenues ...
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The role of humanities in the medical curriculum: medical students’ perspectives
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 on the usefulness and necessity of the humanities as well as their ...
Loukia Petrou +6 more
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On the shoulders of students? The contribution of PhD students to the advancement of knowledge [PDF]
Using the participation in peer reviewed publications of all doctoral students in Quebec over the 2000-2007 period this paper provides the first large scale analysis of their research effort.
Lariviere, Vincent
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Developments in medical humanities in Sri Lanka: A call for regional and global action
Introduction: Medical Humanities is the interface of health sciences and humanities and an emerging field of interest. Several papers have outlined the status of this field in the Asian region where a diversity of teaching and learning approaches have ...
Saroj Jayasinghe, Santhushya Fernando
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Il saggioidentifica il carattere delle Medical Humanities nella loro capacità,fondata sulle prospettive della narrazione e della sua interpretazione, di contribuire alla lettura e al miglioramento della realazione medico-paziente.
Henk ten Have +1 more
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Humanities in Medical Education: Definition, Benefits and Application
The Medical Humanities provide an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the profound effects of illness on individuals and the social worlds in which they live and work.
Mahla Salajegheh
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Learning to think-with: feminist epistemology and the practice-based medical humanities [PDF]
This paper begins at the place of practice, immersed in the messy real-life clinical setting, with the tensions, errors, affects and anxieties that suffuse healthcare and its delivery and might perhaps be epitomised, in their most intense iteration, by ...
Winning, Joanne
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Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung (eds.), Picturing Women's Health [PDF]
This fourth volume from the Warwick Series in the Humanities focuses on the medical humanities and the ‘long nineteenth century’, and aims to ‘picture many women, types of (ill) health, social contexts and sources’ (p. 9).
Edwards, Sarah
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Interdisciplinary workshop in the philosophy of medicine: medical knowledge, medical duties
On 27 September 2013, the Centre for the Humanities and Health (CHH) at King's College London hosted a 1-day workshop on ‘Medical knowledge, Medical Duties’.
Bullock, Emma, Kingma, Elselijn
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