Medicine and Society, Central Michigan University

Medicine and Society integrates population and public health concepts with individual and community needs, health, and healthcare access, providing essential context for ethical, cultural, legal and organizational concepts. Other Medicine and Society topics include foundational elements of professionalism, ethics, humanities, and self-care in the medical profession. This is a longitudinal, pre-clerkship course that all students must complete satisfactorily to progress to 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.