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Insights into medical humanities education in China and the West
Medical humanity is the soul of health education. Beginning medical students are taught various aspects of basic medicine, such as biochemistry, anatomy, and immunology. However, cultivation of the humanistic aspects of medicine has received increasing attention in recent decades. We performed a com...
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author | Qian, Yun Han, Qixin Yuan, Weien Fan, Cunyi |
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description | Medical humanity is the soul of health education. Beginning medical students are taught various aspects of basic medicine, such as biochemistry, anatomy, and immunology. However, cultivation of the humanistic aspects of medicine has received increasing attention in recent decades. We performed a comparison study based on a literature search and our experience with medical humanistic courses in Western and Chinese medical colleges. We found both similarities and disparities in humanities courses offered in Western medical colleges and Chinese medical colleges. The delivery of humanities courses, such as medical sociology, medical ethics, medical psychology, and medical history, is widespread and helps to prepare students for their transformation from medical students to skilful medical professionals. Both Western and Chinese medical colleges offer a variety of medical humanistic courses for undergraduate students. Although Chinese medical humanistic education has undergone major changes, it still requires improvement and educators can learn from Western practice. We hope that our analysis will contribute to education reforms in the medical field. |
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spelling | pubmed-61359952018-09-17 Insights into medical humanities education in China and the West Qian, Yun Han, Qixin Yuan, Weien Fan, Cunyi J Int Med Res Review Medical humanity is the soul of health education. Beginning medical students are taught various aspects of basic medicine, such as biochemistry, anatomy, and immunology. However, cultivation of the humanistic aspects of medicine has received increasing attention in recent decades. We performed a comparison study based on a literature search and our experience with medical humanistic courses in Western and Chinese medical colleges. We found both similarities and disparities in humanities courses offered in Western medical colleges and Chinese medical colleges. The delivery of humanities courses, such as medical sociology, medical ethics, medical psychology, and medical history, is widespread and helps to prepare students for their transformation from medical students to skilful medical professionals. Both Western and Chinese medical colleges offer a variety of medical humanistic courses for undergraduate students. Although Chinese medical humanistic education has undergone major changes, it still requires improvement and educators can learn from Western practice. We hope that our analysis will contribute to education reforms in the medical field. SAGE Publications 2018-08-08 2018-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6135995/ /pubmed/30088424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060518790415 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Review Qian, Yun Han, Qixin Yuan, Weien Fan, Cunyi Insights into medical humanities education in China and the West |
title | Insights into medical humanities education in China and the
West |
title_full | Insights into medical humanities education in China and the
West |
title_fullStr | Insights into medical humanities education in China and the
West |
title_full_unstemmed | Insights into medical humanities education in China and the
West |
title_short | Insights into medical humanities education in China and the
West |
title_sort | insights into medical humanities education in china and the
west |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6135995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30088424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060518790415 |
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