Humanistic studies in medical education

The humanistic side of medical education.

Emphasizing humanities in medical education: Promoting the integration of medical scientific spirit and medical humanistic spirit.

In the era of the biological-psychological-social medicine model, an ideal of modern medicine is to enhance the humanities in medical education, to foster medical talents with humanistic spirit, and to promote the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit in medicine. Throughout the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), other Western countries, and some Asian countries like Japa...

Case studies and medical education.

In this issue of the journal Christopher Coope presents three sorts of worries about the use of case studies in medical ethics teaching. The first is that heavy reliance on case studies 'tends to exaggerate the degree to which morality is controversial'; the second is that 'it is often quite unclear what problems count as moral problems'; the third is that there are 'limits as to what we may re...

Humanistic Education: Concerns, Implications and Applications

Humanistic approach introduced by the ideas of Scholars like Erickson, Roger, and Maslow began to permeate the field of second language teaching and learning towards the end of 1970. According to Lei (2007) humanistic approach emphasizes the importance of the inner world of the learner and places the individual’s thought, emotions and feelings at the forefront of all human development. Due to t...

A Study of Core Humanistic Competency for Developing Humanism Education for Medical Students.

The authors conducted a survey on essential humanistic competency that medical students should have, and on teaching methods that will effectively develop such attributes. The participants consisted of 154 medical school professors, 589 medical students at Seoul National University College of Medicine, 228 parents, and 161 medical school and university hospital staff. They answered nine questio...