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The Humanities Program in Medicine is a University-wide program dedicated to providing students with a broadened exposure to areas other than the biological sciences during their medical education. These areas include clinical ethics, jurisprudence, history, economics, literature and health policy. The program is directed from the dean’s office at the School of Medicine and utilizes faculty at the Danforth Campus, medical school and School of Law, as well as extramural faculty.
The mission of the program is to generate an appreciation of the relationship of human experience, culture, institutions and values to medicine and thereby help to educate professionals who will apply that understanding to their activities as practicing physicians, biomedical researchers and/or medical administrators. This program is an enhancement of an already strong curriculum to prepare medical students to pursue their professional careers more effectively. It takes a major role in the Practice of Medicine course integrated over the first two years of medical school. In addition, several electives are offered during the fourth year.
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