PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - V J Grant
AU  - A Jackson
AU  - T Suk
TI  - Courses, content, and a student essay in medical humanities
AID  - 10.1136/mh.28.1.49
DP  - 2002 Jun 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - 49--52
VI  - 28
IP  - 1
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/28/1/49.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/28/1/49.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2002 Jun 01; 28
AB  - Two principled decisions underlay the introduction of the new compulsory medical humanities course. First, it was decided, all lecturers must be trained in the discipline; second, the course content must be relevant to medicine. This paper gives details of the content of eight selective courses. There is also an example of an essay by one of the students, Tiffany Suk. Entitled “Two patients in two rooms with two choices and two ends”, it is a brief analysis and critique of Sylvia Plath's poems Tulips and Contusion. It shows how the student took what she had learned from her course in health psychology to further illuminate the poems. The essay is followed by comments from the lecturer, Anna Jackson, giving the context for the essay and her assessment of it.