Concluding Commentary. The Importance of the Humanities in Medical Education: Where are we now?

Jonathan McFarland; Irina Markovina; Trevor Gibbs

doi:https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2018.0000220.1

doi.org/10.15694/mep.2018.0000220.1

Concluding Commentary. The Importance of the Humanities in Medical Education: Where are we now?

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Volume: 7, Pages: 220 - 220

Published: Sep 24, 2018

Abstract

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The undergraduate medical curriculum, together with many of the other healthcare curricula, is under a constant state of change. Sometimes that change is for the better, very occasionally less so. Many physicians who graduated more than forty years ago may agree that the humanities were a strong component of the hidden curriculum; the humanities were just there and enhanced...