Insights, freedom, joy, responsibilities, and challenges of a life in medicine; reading, discussion, individual creative writing.
Note that this course was titled 'Medicine, Literature, and Poetics' in 2008/09.
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.
Subject Area
MedicineGeographic Region
West North CentralUniversity or College
University of Iowa (Carver)Funding Status
PublicEndowment (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) ($1,000)
2525508Annual Tuition and Mandatory Fees 2021-2022 ($) (Resident; Non-resident, where applicable)
38662; 59437Course Title
Medicine, Literature, and WritingTerminal Degree of Instructor(s)
MFAPosition of Instructor(s)
Writing Program DirectorAcademic Year(s) Active
2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22; course may be longer running, but archives end at 2008.Course Enrolment
unlimitedPrimary Works on Reading List
In 2020/21, reading selections including works by Abraham Verghese, Flannery O’Connor, Jose Saramago, and Marilynne Robinson.
