You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
From Kafka to Casualty: doctors and medicine in popular culture and the arts— a special studies module
  1. Brian Glasser
  1. Royal Free & University College Medical School, London

    Abstract

    This paper describes and reflects on the content and teaching methods of a two-week medical humanities special studies module (SSM) taken by third-year students at the Royal Free & University College Medical School. It aims to add to the common pool of knowledge, and will be of use to people who are considering setting up something similar.

    • Undergraduate medical humanities education
    • professional identity
    • popular culture
    • the arts
    • film
    • theatre

    https://doi.org/10.1136/mh.27.2.99

    Statistics from Altmetric.com

      Request Permissions

      If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

      View Full Text

      Footnotes

      • Contributing authors: Michael Clark, Trisha Greenhalgh, Christine Harmar-Brown, Joan Leach, Michael Modell, John Salinsky

      • Brian Glasser, BA (Hons), MSc, is Honorary Lecturer in the Centre for Medical Humanities, Department of Primary Care & Population Sciences, Royal Free & University College Medical School, London. Dr Michael Clark, Medical Film & Video Library, Wellcome Trust; Christine Harmar-Brown, freelance writer and tutor; Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Royal Free & University College Medical School; Dr Joan Leach, Imperial College; Professor Michael Modell, Royal Free & University College Medical School, and Dr John Salinsky, General Practitioner and GP course organiser.