Medical Humanities is integrated in the MD Program in three different areas: Year 3 Intercession, Year 4 (1-week course), and Year 3/4 Medical Humanities Clerkship.
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.
History
Subject Area
Medicine
Geographic Region
East North Central
University or College
Southern Illinois University, Springfield
Funding Status
Public
Endowment (according to NACUBO's U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change* in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20) ($1,000)
148095
Annual Tuition and Mandatory Fees 2021-2022 ($) (Resident; Non-resident, where applicable)
37864
Course Title
Medical Humanities
Terminal Degree of Instructor(s)
MD
Position of Instructor(s)
Chair of Medical Humanities
Academic Year(s) Active
2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23; likely to have been running longer, but archives unavailable