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Compassion, medical humanities and medical education

Education for Primary Care, 2018
Compassion is central to person centred clinical care. Medical Humanities have developed both as an academic discipline and as a resource for education over the past 30 years. The article will discuss what compassion is in a clinical context, and explore whether compassionate clinical practice can be enhanced by using the humanities in medical ...
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Reflections on the humanities in medical education

Medical Education, 2002
Background  In recognition of the views advanced by the philosopher Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, this paper considers some of the implications for medical practice and, hence, medical education, of recognizing the human body as an `intertwining' of the natural (or physical) and the existential (or experiential ...
Martyn Evans
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Evaluating the Impact of the Humanities in Medical Education

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 2009
AbstractThe 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, however, about the definition and precise role of the humanities in medical education, whether at the premedical, medical school, or postgraduate level.
Jeremy S Abramson   +1 more
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Medical Humanities Role in Medical Education

World Medical and Health Policy, 2012
AbstractTwentieth Century medical education has stressed the basic sciences to the neglect of the humanities. The intent of this commentary is to explore the humanities' role and contribution to the professional formation of the physician. A major change on the United States' medical school admission exam starting in 2015 is a move away from its ...
Thomas Zimmerman
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Medical Education and the Medical Humanities

Abstract There are, and have always been, close family ties between the humanities and the medical profession. Among other things, these find expression in the physician's oath, which is taken in many countries in the transition from medical student to trained physician.
Jakob Ousager
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