Explore Medical Humanities, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

This “full-time” elective is a two week long course. Students will meet for 2.5 hours three days per week with a faculty member and/or other content expert. In-between these sessions, students will devote their time to the study of assigned materials: readings, writing and visual content. Each week, students will submit a short paper or other creative work that reflects, supports, or otherwise corresponds to the course material. Students will discuss ways in which the lessons from literature can be applied to their medical practice and work on writing projects intended to introduce them to the healing power of visual and written art, music, and storytelling through lens of culture, history, psychology, and sociology. A course syllabus and reading list will be provided. The course will be organized into four sections: Art and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Reflective Writing, and Selected Aspects of Medical History. Note that this course is enrichment only; i.e. it cannot be taken for credit. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.