Humanistic medicine or values-based medicine. what's in a name?

Sexual health: what's in a name?

Holistic View in Medicine

Modern medicine was born in modernism period around two centuries ago with materialistic view in general and pure biologic approach to health and disease. This new kind of approach was based on the wide spread philosophic view of that era especially the hypotheses of Claude Bernard. As our understanding of human biology has tremendously progressed, and the emergence of postmodernism era has o...

Early performance in a humanistic medicine course as a predictor of dental students' later clinical performance.

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that dental students' early ability to demonstrate a humanistic approach with patients is associated with later clinical performance. A first-year humanistic medicine course, Patient Doctor I (PDI), at Harvard School of Dental Medicine combines training in conducting the medical interview with human values, placing a high value on strengtheni...

Teaching humanistic and psychosocial aspects of care: current practices and attitudes.

OBJECTIVE To assess current practices and attitudes toward teaching humanistic and psychosocial aspects of care in internal medicine residency programs. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Survey questionnaires were sent to residency directors at all 434 internal medicine residency programs accredited in 1985-1986. Response rate for two mailings was 71%. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS 78% OF RESIDENCY D...

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Background: Nature, definitions and theories of play in humanistic sciences is known with psychologocal origin. Among medicine and rehabilitation sciences, occupational therapy is the only profession that deals with a particular focus on play. Conclusion: In this paper, the role of play in pediatric occupational therapy is discussed and the exsicting model is explained. Overall, the viewpoin...