Medical Humanities Elective Clerkship, University of the Incarnate Word

This four-week experience is designed to provide experiential learning in medical humanities. As such, it engages students in that interdisciplinary field that uses the humanities’ methods of inquiry to examine, improve, and critique the practice of medicine. The principal focus of the course will be on narrative issues related to medicine and will include close reading of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film analysis, and memoir-writing. 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.