The orphan child: humanities in modern medical education

Abstract Use of humanities content in American medical education has been debated for well over 60 years. While many respected scholars and medical educators have purported the value of humanities content in medical training, its inclusion remains unstandardized, and the undergraduate medical curric...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mary E. Kollmer Horton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13010-018-0067-y