Introduction Humanism is cultivated through reflection and self-awareness. We aimed to employ fourth-year medical students, recognized for their humanism, to facilitate reflective sessions for second-year medical students with the intention of positively influencing reflective process toward humanistic development. Methods/Analysis A total of 186 students were randomly assigned to one of three ...

When Hippocrates lashed out against superstition and wrote his treatise on epilepsy, he seems to have provided a formula and he indicated a trend for the whole history of the relationship between medicine and psychiatry. The trend, under different guises and expressed in different languages and terminology, is as potent today as it was twenty-four hundred years ago. Epilepsy, Hippocrates almost...

In this paper we comprehensively review published quantitative research on the relationship between religion, spirituality (R/S), and cardiovascular (CV) disease, discuss mechanisms that help explain the associations reported, examine the clinical implications of those findings, and explore future research needed in Brazil on this topic. First, we define the terms religion, spirituality, and se...