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标题：Medical humanities:developing into a mainstream discipline
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作者：P.Ravi Shankar
期刊名称：Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions
电子版ISSN：1975-5937
出版年度：2014
卷号：11
期号：1
页码：1-2
DOI：10.3352/jeehp.2014.11.32
语种：English
出版社：Korea Health Insurance Licensing Examination Institute
摘要：I read with great interest the article titled 'Is assessment of medical humanities test needed in the national medical licens_x0002_ing examination of Korea:opinions of medical students and physician writers’ [1].The author raises a number of issues re?lated to medical humanities learning and assessment and the place of the subject in the medical curriculum.Medical hu?manities programs are now common in medical schools in many countries [2,3].The case scenarios mentioned in the ar?ticle as part of the questionnaire are mainly concerned with medical ethics.Medical ethics,an important area of study in its own right has attracted greater attention and interest than other areas of medical humanities.The relation between medical ethics and medical humanities has been debated in the lit?erature.Kopelman [4] in an article published in 1998 men?tioned that bioethics and medical humanities can be regarded as one field.The author mentions six features which unite the two areas ranging from the use of interdisciplinary approaches,dealing with certain important aspects of the human con?dition,employing cases and practical reasoning and finding morally justifiable solutions.However another author mentions that bioethics in medical schools should not be consid?ered as a part of or substituted for medical humanities within the curriculum [5].The author mentions that medical human?ities has become a hand maiden to bioethics which has gained more acceptance and respectability.Bioethics may be more acceptable because it employs a more scientific method of reasoning while medical humanities employs a more human?istic approach.In a previous book chapter I had mentioned that ethical dilemmas,problems and standards of behavior can be immersed within a medical humanities course [2].In the module I facilitate clinical scenarios and ethical issues play an important part.
关键词：I read with great interest the article titled 'Is assessment of medical humanities test needed in the national medical licens_x0002_ing examination of Korea:opinions of medical students and physician writers’ [1].The author raises a number of issues re?lated to medical humanities learning and assessment and the place of the subject in the medical curriculum.Medical hu?manities programs are now common in medical schools in many countries [2,3].The case scenarios mentioned in the ar?ticle as part of the questionnaire are mainly concerned with medical ethics.Medical ethics,an important area of study in its own right has attracted greater attention and interest than other areas of medical humanities.The relation between medical ethics and medical humanities has been debated in the lit?erature.Kopelman [4] in an article published in 1998 men?tioned that bioethics and medical humanities can be regarded as one field.The author mentions six features which unite the two areas ranging from the use of interdisciplinary approaches,dealing with certain important aspects of the human con?dition,employing cases and practical reasoning and finding morally justifiable solutions.However another author mentions that bioethics in medical schools should not be consid?ered as a part of or substituted for medical humanities within the curriculum [5].The author mentions that medical human?ities has become a hand maiden to bioethics which has gained more acceptance and respectability.Bioethics may be more acceptable because it employs a more scientific method of reasoning while medical humanities employs a more human?istic approach.In a previous book chapter I had mentioned that ethical dilemmas,problems and standards of behavior can be immersed within a medical humanities course [2].In the module I facilitate clinical scenarios and ethical issues play an important part.