Arts-Medical Courses

Medical Post-Graduate Courses

Literature and the arts in medical education.

Editor’s Note: In this column, teachers who are currently using literary and artistic materials as part of their curricula will briefly summarize specific works, delineate their purposes and goals in using these media, describe their audience and teaching strategies, discuss their methods of evaluation, and speculate about the impact of these teaching tools on learners (and teachers). Submissio...

Medical humanities among the healing arts?

Medical humanities courses becoming prerequisites in many medical schools.

Ethics in undergraduate medical courses in Nepal.

A quick perusal of the Nepal Medical Council (NMC) Rules shows that the physicians registered with the NMC are supposed to follow a number of ethical principles while treating patients or in dealing with their professional colleagues.1 There is a list of “do’s and don’ts” in the rules book. These rules reflect the tradition in medicine which requires that the physicians treat their patients wit...