Humanities in Medical Education: Definition, Benefits and Application

Appreciative Inquiry Approach in Evaluation of Medical Education Programs: Definition and Application

Background: The ultimate goal of educational program evaluation the development of individuals and organizations. Achieving this goal requires evaluation methods with a systematic approach to all components of the program. Methods: In this narrative review study, the keywords "Appreciative Inquiry Approach", Program Evaluation", "Medical Education" were searched in Scopus, Web of Science, EMBA...

Humanities in Medical Education Humanities in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Literature Review

Purpose Humanities form an integral part of undergraduate medical curricula at numerous medical schools all over the world, and medical journals publish a considerable quantity of articles in this field. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the literature on humanities in undergraduate medical education seeks to provide evidence of a long-term impact of this integration of...

Humanities in medical training and education.

This paper explores how current developments within medical humanities might provide a way to both understand and address the origin of recent events that have left the profession branded as arrogant, out of touch and misguided (2). The arts provide a powerful medium to improve the understanding of the experience of illness. Furthermore the understanding obtained is qualitatively different from...

The humanities in postgraduate medical education

This article discusses the value of the medical humanities within the medical curriculum. It explores the place of the humanities in postgraduate psychiatric training, what a curriculum might look like and which texts it might be useful to include in courses. It also briefly discusses teaching methods that may be appropriate in a postgraduate setting. Many of the proposed ideas are potentially ...

Whither (Whether) Medical Humanities? The Future of Humanities and Arts in Medical Education

Author Bio: Johanna Shapiro, Ph.D. is professor of family medicine and director of the Program in Medical Humanities & Arts, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine. As a psychologist and medical educator, she had focused her research and scholarship on the socialization process of medical education, with a special focus on the impact of training on student empathy; and on the docto...

Medical humanities in undergraduate medical education--moving on.