Medical Humanities, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (Broad)

Reflection on professional medical practice by employing the skills and perspectives of the humanities, specifically literary studies, visual and performing arts. Between at least 1993 and 2003, all students were required to complete an eight-hour course (four-week block) called Humanities and Medicine, by undertaking study on one of three modules: Spirituality and Health, Literature and Medicine, or History of Medicine. We have been unable to confirm that this continued beyond 2003, but the following article reflects on this practice: doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200310000-00005. 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.