Medical Humanities, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine

The Medical Humanities course focuses the attention of fourth-year students on the human experience of being ill and healing, as well as the complex arrangements that shape medical care. Using the arts, humanities or social sciences as a lens, each student carries out an independent research project on a dimension of medicine that interests him or her. The course comes to a conclusion when the students come together to share their findings with each other. In this way, the Medical Humanities course challenges students to reflect on the practice of medicine, enriches their understanding of medical practice as a human institution, and expands the resources they can bring to bear in their encounters with patients and colleagues. 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.