Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: It's a Tuesday afternoon, and Daniel, a first-year medical student, sits down with his classmates in a sunlit conference room to discuss a documentary they have all just watched about the daily lives of wheelchair-bound patients and the challenges of the complex medical system those patients have to navigate.The course in which the documentary was shown is not graded because of the difficulties in assessing what a student learns from the study of the humanities in the medical context.As Daniel sees his classmates logging onto social networking sites on their laptops and only peripherally participating in the discussion, he wonders if the course should be graded, even though it differs from most medical school courses by trying to foster unquantifiable attitudes such as empathy, patience, and comfort with complexity.What is the best way to demonstrate to medical students that the administration believes that studying the humanities is important to the education of a physician?
Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic
Authors: Carolyn Gaebler, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4254420654