The medical humanities offer a look at medicine from a variety of perspectives not normally available in the more scientific curriculum offered in most medical schools. Medical humanities include perspectives of the historian, the story teller, the anthropologist, the ethicist, the attorney, the psychiatrist and others. Such perspectives prove a broadening context for the practice of medicine, a context that allows the physician to place his or her work into relationship with other established fields of knowledge.
Many physicians find the medical humanities to be helpful in their daily practice.
The emphasis on language and communication, the attention to problem solving, and most importantly, the development of critical thinking that the medical humanities encourage serve to ground, deepen, and enrich the work of these physicians. The most humane of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. This course gave me insight into why medicine is like it is today. Would love to continue this course in my residency. Includes practice with medical presentations and residency interviews.