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The medical humanities and the perils of curricular integration
Neville Chiavaroli1, Constance Ellwood
1Medical Education Unit, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. n.chiavaroli@unimelb.edu.au
Abstract:
The advent of integration as a feature of contemporary medical curricula can be seen as an advantage for the medical humanities in that it provides a clear implementation strategy for the inclusion of medical humanities content and/or perspectives, while also making its relevance to medical education more apparent. This paper discusses an example of integration of humanities content into a graduate medical course, raises questions about the desirability of an exclusively integrated approach, and argues for the value of retaining a discrete and coherent disciplinary presence for the medical humanities in medical curricula.
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