RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Courses, content, and a student essay in medical humanities
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 49
OP 52
DO 10.1136/mh.28.1.49
VO 28
IS 1
A1 V J Grant
A1 A Jackson
A1 T Suk
YR 2002
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/28/1/49.abstract
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.